Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Victoria Stores
Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1991
- Community
- Newcastle Emlyn
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.03909, -4.46719
- Cadw reference
- 9694
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 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at corner of Church Street, on street line.
History
Circa 1840-60.
Exterior
House in unpainted stucco with slate roof and stone end stacks. Three storeys with curved SE corner and deep boarded eaves. Curved angle has curved doors to ground floor and 12-pane sash to each floor above, both curved. Main front has 2 twelve-pane sashes each floor except ground floor left which has 3-pane shop-window in plain raised surround. Centre door with small-panel overlight.
S end wall to Church Street has raised sill bands and 12-pane sash to left side of first and second floors. Ground floor right 3-pane shop-window balancing that on main front.
Rubble stone 2-storey 2-window rear wing to Church Street.
Condition poor (empty Spring 1990).
Reason for designation
Group value; important site opposite Market Buildings.
Nearby in the register
- The Blue Bell InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Town Hall & Market BuildingsCivilunder 1 mi
- The Bunch of Grapes InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Bank HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.