Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Globe House (including SB & RB Gleed, Butcher's Shop)
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
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Community
- Laugharne Township
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.77041, -4.46251
- Cadw reference
- 9664
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
Opposite the town Hall at the end of the street, on the corner with Duncan Street. Formerly the Globe Hotel, sold in 1869.
History
Mid C19 (now show on 1834 survey map) late Georgian double pile plan.
Exterior
3-storey and basement 3-window rendered front with 2nd floor cill band. Slate roof, projecting eaves, brick and rubble chimney stacks. 2-storey bay to left with small pane sash glazing and dentiled cornices; paired sash windows to swept roof dormer above. Wide bracketed hood to doorways of house and shop; 6-panel door to house, boarded stable door to shop with later bay window.
Cement render twin gabled left side with cill band, end pilaster strip, plinth and sash windows. Cross ranage extends along Duncan Street (N side) in which cambered archway with keystone and double boarded doors lead to rectangular cobbled courtyard with whitewashed rubble inner walls.
Interior
Interior retains contemporary detail including Regency fireplaces, one with paired columns; shutters, cornices and panelled doors. Narrow ballroom to cross range.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- GwaliaCommercialunder 1 mi
- Manchester HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
- Boundry Wall to W of Castle House,including gated entranceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.