Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Minerva
Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Laugharne Township
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77173, -4.46278
- Cadw reference
- 9644
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
Set in a continuous row of frontages, stepped up from Redford House to right.
Exterior
Later C18 Georgian 3-storey, 3-window stucco front, probably built as a pair with Osborne House to left; structure with earlier origins and Victorian alterations. Tiled foor, overhanging eaves, rubble and brick chimney stacks. Modern 2nd floor windows, 12-pane sashes to 1st floor with arched bead to centre window. Applied Tudor hood moulds to 1st and 2nd floors. Paired ca.1900 splayed bays with dentilled cornices, coloured glass and sash glazing. Segmental arched coach entrance to left below blank wall space; panelled and boarded double doors.
Exposed rubble right end wall reveals lower rear roof pitch and lines of earlier front pitch.
Interior
The interior formally contained a school room of the residential Grammar School.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Redford HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Osbourne HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-boxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Grove HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.