Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
10 Spilman Street
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
- 51.85659, -4.30395
- Cadw reference
- 9598
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 in terraced row just SW of Ivy Bush Hotel.
History
Terraced house, probably early C19, part of the group Nos 5-10 of which 5-8 were rebuilt in replica in 1989-90. Marked on 1834 map. Mrs Margaret Evans had a lodging house here in 1884, T.E. Brigstocke JP, county councillor, lived here in early C20, son of Charles Brigstocke, wine merchant, nephew of the portraitist Thomas Brigstocke.
Exterior
Large mid-terrace house in painted stucco with close-eaved slate roof and red brick end stacks. Three storeys and cellar, 3-window range of horned plate glass sashes with centre C20 6-panel door. Low raised plinth in painted stucco. Evidence of former added pedimented hood, removed since 1981. Painted stone sills. Upper storey has half-sized sashes, as on No 9. Plain eaves board and cast iron rainwater goods.
Interior
Staircase with straight balusters and turned newels. Fielded 6-panel doors.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial Georgian terraced town house, one of the last survivors of an important terraced row.
Nearby in the register
- 9 Spilman StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Spilman HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
- Masonic HallInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- 12 Spilman StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.