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
10977
Building Number
14
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/02/1981
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004
Name of Property
Frankville
Address
14 Broad Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandovery
Town
Locality
Easting
276607
Northing
234284
Street Side
SE
Location
Situated at end of terraced row on junction with entrance to car park.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Earlier C19 pair with No 16, marked in rate books 1836-66 as owned by W Williams and probably altered or rebuilt in 1890s for J James of Penygawse, draper. Also said to have been built c.1890 for Frank Blick retired coachman to Mme Patti of Craig y Nos Castle, who named it Frankville. He may have been the first tenant.
Exterior
End-terrace house, a mirrored pair with No. 16, each house of 2 bays and 2 storeys with slate gabled roof and the pair with end chimneys, missing on No 14. Bracketed eaves. Painted stucco facade with plinth and long and short quoins, 4-pane horned sashes to 1st floor, over 2-4-2-pane canted bay with dentil cornice to left and door to right in paired doorcase. Four-panelled door (2 raised and fielded; 2 flush) with rectangular overlight, in shallow panelled recess in doorcase of panelled pilasters with flat cornice on consoles.
Left hand return windowless roughcast, with deep eaves.
Interior
Inner door panelled and half glazed and with rectangular overlight. Fireplaces and doors replaced. Tongued and grooved dado panelling in front hall. Handrail replaced on stairs which have turned newel and balusters.
Reason for designation
Included as part of a row of Victorian terraced houses with good surviving detail - well preserved examples of a characteristic C19 urban building type.
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