Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Drovers Arms
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 19 May 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1981
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85630, -4.31117
- Cadw reference
- 9491
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated just E of Heol Awst Sunday School.
History
Inn with earlier to mid C19 exterior detail but with plaque of 1775. Marked on 1834 map of Carmarthen, but date of name uncertain, though listed as the Drovers Arms in 1926 directory.
Exterior
Inn in terraced row, painted stucco, C20 concrete tile roof with moulded eaves cornice and brick end stacks. Three-storey 3-window range upper 2 floors with plate glass sashes and ground floor with large square 4-pane sash to left of central doorway and similar tripartite sash to right. Window openings with plain stucco surround and on first floor with moulded cornices on consoles. Doorway with pilasters and entablature and door of 6 fielded panels. Raised plinth. C20 inn sign hanging from scrolled bracket on first floor. On far left second floor is a dressed stone inscribed 'This pine end belongs to the house eastwards 1775'. Rear has a little slate-hanging and long 3-storey rear wing with C20 windows and concrete tiles, 6-window range of windows with concrete lintels and brick sides.
Interior
Altered ground floor.
Reason for designation
Listed as a town inn with mid C19 detail but C18 origins, and for group value with the surrounding listed items.
Nearby in the register
- 107 Lammas StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Sunday School to Capel Heol AwstReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Railings, gates and gatepiers to Capel Heol Awst and Sunday SchoolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Waverly HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.