Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hurst House
Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, Wales
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
- 51.75085, -4.46946
- Cadw reference
- 9676
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
Situated in the marshes to S of Laugharne near the MOD area. Set back from road in enclosed small garden to N of the former farmyard.
History
Dated 1797.
Exterior
Georgian 3-storey, 3-window rendered front, slightly advanced from flanking 2-storey lean-to's, with outbuildings forward to left and (modern) right. Slate roof, cornice with diagonally set bricks, rubble and chimney stacks. Casement windows to 2nd floor, sash windows below and to lean-to. Arched entrance and scribed panelled door below plaque which reads: "This House and offices were erected by G P Watkins Esq.
Anno Domini 1797".
Rendered 2-storey, 5-window rear with small-pane glazed sash windows and further lower whitewashed rubble lean-to on S end.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Farm Square at Hurst HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at East House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cowhouse Range at East House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- East farm-range at East House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.