Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
9652
Building Number
Grade
I
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Outer Gatehouse to Laugharne Castle
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Laugharne Township
Town
Locality
Easting
230202
Northing
210794
Street Side
Location
At the bottom of the street near the town Hall, reached by path in front of Castle House.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Rubble 2-storey formerly crenellated gatehouse of late C13/early C14 origin and late. John Perrot alterations (1587-92). N side destroyed in Civil War siege.
Exterior
Gateway passage flanked by rectangular guardroom chambers to ground floor and central room with side garderobe to upper floor.
Voussoired openings, chamfered and spur buttresses, arrowslits with oillets; dragon to weathervane.
In a Scheduled Ancient Monument Site.
Interior
Reason for designation
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