Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Temperance House
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
- 51.77210, -4.46296
- Cadw reference
- 9648
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 down from Abercaran House to left.
Exterior
Late C18 /early C19 late Georgian 2-storey and attic 2-window roughcast front to structure with probably C17 origins. Modern slate roof, brick end chimney stacks; paired pitched roof dormers with bargeboards, finials and casement windows. 12-pane sash windows and 4-pane shop window to left flanking central 4-panel door with bracketed pitched hood.
Interior
Interior retains central cross-passage with concealed beams.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Abercoran HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- VicarageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Grove HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dragon ParkDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.