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
10975
Building Number
13
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/1981
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004
Name of Property
Violet Cottage and front railings
Address
13 Broad Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandovery
Town
Locality
Easting
276608
Northing
234322
Street Side
NW
Location
Situated in terraced row set back in railed garden, c25m NE of junction with Queensway.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House of c1864, built for Mary Jones, widow of William Jones of Henllys, Cilycwm, after the death of her son in 1861 when she left Henllys. Owned by her heirs, occupied for many years by doctors, in late C19 by Dr F W Lewis, to whom is the fountain in the Market Square, in 1926 by Dr T Morgan, and in mid C20 by Dr Eric Price. The house is on the site of the garden of Nos 15-17; a small outbuilding attached to the house is shown on the 1841 Tithe Map as owned by W Jones of Henllys. In a court case relating to the property between this and Clarence House a witness, David Edwards, builder, said that he had built a house here in 1864.
Exterior
House in informal terrace of 3 bays and 2 storeys. Slate gabled roof with red brick chimneys to left and right. Deep eaves with narrow brackets. Painted roughcast facade with long and short quoins to left and right. Horned sashes with marginal glazing throughout, stone steps up to central door of 4 vertical moulded panels, with rectangular overlight, in panelled reveal. Doorcase of panelled piers, large consoles and cornice with triglyphs and roundels. Stuccoed rear with 12-pane sashes each side and centre stair light.
Railings with spearhead finials on low wall of squared stone with ashlar coping. Matching gate with hooped strengthening bar and cast-iron gatepiers with square bosses at mid height and octagonal finials. Cobbled pavement in front of wall and red and black quarry tiles within gates.
To right and advanced to street-line is single storey extension, now shop, with slate gabled roof, C20 triple sash window and door with overlight.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a substantial C19 house still in late Georgian style, of group value with Nos 1-11 (odd) Broad Street.
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