Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Lodge to Plas Ystrad
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Johnstown, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 19 May 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1981
- Locality
- Johnstown
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.84791, -4.32393
- Cadw reference
- 9496
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 by road in corner of rugby ground.
History
Earlier C19 small lodge to Ystrad, demolished small country house rebuilt in early C19 for John Jones MP. Marked on 1837 tithe map. Disused and boarded-up 2002.
Exterior
Former entrance lodge, painted roughcast, single-storey, octagonal, with octagonal slate roof and red terracotta ridges (former central stone cylindrical stack with coping has been removed since 1981). Eaves with fretted timber boards. Roof is carried on 2 plain timber posts over flat front facade with pointed centre doorway with ledged door and casement window of two pointed lights to each side (boarded over at time of resurvey) but said to be similar to those in the former toll house, No 1 St Clear's Road.
Reason for designation
Included as surviving relic of a small country estate.
Nearby in the register
- Ice house to Plas Ystrad, Coed y PlasNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- White Bridge (The bascule railway bridge)Transportunder 1 mi
- White Bridge (The Bacule railway bridge)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Toll HouseTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.