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Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, designated on 25 September 1986.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Laugharne Township
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77036, -4.46122
- Cadw reference
- 9651
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1860 · 41. Caermathen. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 229 Carmarthen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1920 · Sheet 100. Llanelly. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road behind front garden at the corner leading to Victoria Street.
History
Mid C19 (not shown on 1834 survey map)
Exterior
3-storey and basement 3-window colourwashed rubble front facing E, later alterations to glazing slate roof, overhanging eaves, brick end chimney stacks. Modern windows to 2nd floor 4-pane sashes to 1st floor alanking central tripartite window with arched head. Tripartite ground floor windows; central arched entrance reached by raised walkway, 6-panel door and 4-pane fanlight; dug-out basement.
Rubble right end with 1 recessed window: lean-to on left end. It was at one time a school; Dylan Thomas moved here in July 1938, from a cottage in Gosport Street.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Victoria HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
- Section of Boundry Walls around Castle grounds running E from outer GatehouseDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.