Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty Gelli Aur/Golden Grove House, with steps and railings
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, designated on 18 August 1954.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 August 1954
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85528, -4.30761
- Cadw reference
- 9561
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 15m NE of junction with Little Bridge Street.
History
Earlier C18 town house in a style typical of London from the late C17 to c.1730, marked on 1834 map, much altered in renovation c. 1985. In late C19 a private girls' school, the Girls Collegiate School, and from 1895-99 the County Girls' School, or Girls' Intermediate School, which became the Girls Grammar School and was subsequently at Parc Myrddin 1899-1958. Offices in 2002.
Exterior
Substantial terraced house, painted stucco, steep slate roof with eaves lower than those of No 9, late C20 modillion gutter cornice, red brick stack to right, adjoining that of No 9 and small stuccoed stack to right. Two storeys, attic and cellar, 5-window range. Three rooflights. Renewed 12-pane sashes and centre doorway. Cellar opening with 10-pane window in raised plinth, beneath left window.
From pavement a flight of 5 stone steps with renewed iron railings rises up from left to doorway with late C20 detail: architrave, flat hood with dentil cornice on wrought-iron brackets and 8-panel door with fielded panels.
Interior
Interior substantially altered since 1981.
In 1981 the house had vestibule with arches, one with fanlight with tracery and the other with raised and fielded panelled reveals. SW ground floor room lined with raised and fielded panelling and fireplace with bolection moulding in SE wall. Fielded-panelled 6-panel doors. Cornices. C18 staircase with turned balusters, ornately carved newel, closed pulvinated string and panelled dado above wall string.
In 2002 the interior features had almost all gone, the left room had an elliptical arched recess on rear wall and ceiling in 2 panels, but all detail renewed. The staircase was mostly or all renewed, with closed moulded string, turned balusters and square newels.
Reason for designation
Included despite loss of interior features as a substantially earlier C18 town house in the principal surviving Georgian street of the town.
Nearby in the register
- 9 Quay StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls and railings in front of Nos 9 & 10Domesticunder 1 mi
- CartrefDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Quay StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.