Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ball Court
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
- 51.76713, -4.46230
- Cadw reference
- 9668
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
Beside the foreshore facing NE; below Gosport House.
History
Former warehouse dating from the period when Laugharne was a commercial port, name derives from its subsequent use as a ball court.
Possibly the storehouse described in 1925 as "in complete ruin".
Exterior
Mid C19 (not on 1834 survey map but listed on 1842 Tithe Map as store house). Ruined 4-storey, 5-bay rubble structure long since disused. Right hand bay advanced and gabled formerly with lower pitched roof forward extension (as shown on modern OS map). Brick voussoir lintels to square headed openings.
Prominent structure in the general views of Laugharne foreshore.
Nearby in the register
- Gosport HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Strand HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- The StrandDomesticunder 1 mi
- Boundry Wall to Island HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.