Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gazebo in grounds of Laugharne Castle
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
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Laugharne Township
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.76957, -4.46149
- Cadw reference
- 9656
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
Situated on the SE edge of the castle grounds high above the foreshore.
History
Early C19 (shown in view of 1830) rubble gazebo built onto a medieval round tower on the line of the late C13 curtain wall.
Exterior
Pyramidal slate roof, brick chimney stack. 3-sided bay window with replaced 12-pane sash windows lighting rooms with wide sea views in which Dylan Thomas and Richard Hughes worked.
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Reason for designation
In a Scheduled Ancient Monument site.
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- Section of Boundry Walls around Castle grounds running E from outer GatehouseDefenceunder 1 mi
- Laugharne CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- Laugharne CastleCastleunder 1 mi
- Outer Gatehouse to Laugharne CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.