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
10961
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/07/1966
Date of Amendment
01/03/1995
Name of Property
Talley House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Talley
Town
Locality
Tally
Easting
263223
Northing
232626
Street Side
Location
Situated in own grounds to S side of Talley village. Reached at end of short drive off by-road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Until 1661 belonged to the Jones family of Abermarlais, who sold it in that year to Thomas Williams of Talley. Sold in late C18 to Price family, solicitors and agents to the Edwinsford estate, who probably rebuilt the house in the late C18 and extended it c1830. Sold by Long-Price family circa 1960.
Exterior
Large symmetrical late C18 house with wings added c1830.
Roughcast walls, low pitched hipped stone tiled roof with wide eaves. Broad rendered chimney stacks to ends of centre block. 3-storey 3-window central portion, all windows replaced in UPVC except to second floor which are 12-pane hornless sashes. Central door with bracketed wooden canopy and half-glazed door.
Balancing single bay 2-storey wings of equal height to main house, slightly projecting with elliptically -headed ground floor French windows; modern glazing. 12-pane hornless sash to first floor of right hand wing, similar modern UPVC sash to left hand wing.
2-storey 3-bay S front. All windows 12-pane modern UPVC sash. Central doorway under elliptical arch, panelled door with plainly glazed fanlight and flanking vertical lights. The wooden Doric portico has been removed.
Utilitarian 3-storey N elevation. Irregular arrangement of windows mostly replaced in UPVC. Central 12-pane hornless sash remains as does a fixed 9-pane window to first floor extreme left. Small hip-roofed porch to left with stone tiled roof.
Irregular rear elevation with slightly projecting wings, windowless to right; 2 modern windows to left. 2 gables to centre. 2 12-pane sashes to upper floor. High round arched stair window under right hand gable; hornless sash with radiating upper glazing bars. Gabled 2-storey extension to left of above with marginally glazed hornless sash window.
Interior
Early C19 staircase in apsidal well, stick balusters and decorative tread-ends. Early C19 plasterwork to some rooms. Fireplaces removed.
Reason for designation
Important late C18/early C19 gentleman's residence.
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