Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls and railings in front of Nos 9 & 10
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1981
- Community
- Carmarthen
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.85536, -4.30768
- Cadw reference
- 9562
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated along pavement edge in front of houses some 20m from junction with Little Bridge Street.
History
Front railing and steps in front of Nos 9 and 10, originally late C18 to earlier C19, almost entirely remade in late C20.
Exterior
Low terrace wall of stone to raised pavement, increasing in height downhill to right, surmounted by iron railings with slender uprights, and the top rail ramped down to each side of a flight of 3 steps opposite No 9. Standards with urn finials. Two bays to left of steps, 4 to right, the railings extending as far as separate steps and railings leading up to doorway of No 10. Terrace wall extends further, to near right hand end of No. 10. Almost all railings are renewed in replica since 1981, apart from one section each side of steps opposite No 9.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Nos 9 and 10, and as a townscape feature in the princiapl surviving Georgian street of the town.
Nearby in the register
- 9 Quay StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty Gelli Aur/Golden Grove House, with steps and railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llys-y-BarnwrDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Quay StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.