Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Outer Gatehouse to Laugharne Castle
Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, Wales
A Grade I listed building in Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, designated on 25 September 1986.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade I
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Laugharne Township
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77000, -4.46228
- Cadw reference
- 9652
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
At the bottom of the street near the town Hall, reached by path in front of Castle House.
History
Rubble 2-storey formerly crenellated gatehouse of late C13/early C14 origin and late. John Perrot alterations (1587-92). N side destroyed in Civil War siege.
Exterior
Gateway passage flanked by rectangular guardroom chambers to ground floor and central room with side garderobe to upper floor.
Voussoired openings, chamfered and spur buttresses, arrowslits with oillets; dragon to weathervane.
In a Scheduled Ancient Monument Site.
Nearby in the register
- Boundry Wall to W of Castle House,including gated entranceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Castle HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Laugharne CastleCastleunder 1 mi
- Section of boundry walls around Castle grounds running SW.from outer GatehouseDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.