Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gainsford House
Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Laugharne Township
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77150, -4.46273
- Cadw reference
- 9642
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
History
The adjoining Post Office was formerly the stores to Gainsford House with later alterations and no longer of special interest.
Exterior
Later C19, built by the local David family, became a hotel and then a chemist in early C20. Victoria Gothic (? stype of J P Seddon) 2-storey, 5-window bull-nosed rubble (said to be cornish stone) front with freestone window dressings; rusticated quoins and plinth. Slate roof, brick and rubble chimney stacks and bracket eaves. Tripartite horned sash windows with depressed arched heads and brick banded voussoir lintels to 1st floor; steeper pointed arched heads to ground floor right with rubble voussoirs; similar treatment to central 6-panel door entrance. Shop front to left with paired semi-circular headed lights flanking pointed arched half-glazed entrance.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Osbourne HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- MinervaDomesticunder 1 mi
- Exeter House including Oriel Evans BokshopCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Pines including Oriel Evans BookshopCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.