Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
75 Water 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
- 51.85724, -4.31156
- Cadw reference
- 9614
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 approximately 50m from junction with St Catherine Street.
History
Town house, externally earlier C19, but possibly with earlier origins. Marked on 1834 map. Occupied by Carmarthen Antiques 2001.
Exterior
End-terrace house, now shop, in painted roughcast with slate close-eaved roof and stucco end stacks. Three-storey, 3-window front of plate glass sashes, smaller on top floor, with centre door. Two small cellar vents to plinth. Chamfered doorway with small projecting timber hood on carved brackets. Five-panelled door with horizontal centre panel and overlight. Cast iron rainwater goods.
Interior
Altered ground floor. Staircase with closed string, turned newels, stick balusters and ramped rail. Some early C19 fireplaces upstairs and panelled partition in big square panels. Attic roof trusses have had collars removed. Two-room cellar with slate shelving and fireplace.
Reason for designation
Included as a good end-terrace house of late Georgian type, and for group value with the adjoining chapel and railings.
Nearby in the register
- Gates, piers and railings to Capel Heol Dwr ForecourtReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Capel Heol DwrReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 23 St Catherine StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 24 St Catherine StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.