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.
Date of Designation
24/06/1991
Date of Amendment
24/06/1991
Name of Property
Snifters
Address
64 Rhosmaen Street
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Location
On the street line adjoining the Angel Hotel.
Exterior
Ca l825. Three storey, 4 window retail premises. Roughcast on rubble walls. Gently pitched slate roof, cavetto eaves cornice.
Shallow upper sashes to 9 pane 2nd floor windows, continuous sill band. 12 pane sash windows to lst floor. Modern hanging sign to centre.
Continuous moulded cornice over shopfronts to ground floor. Plain fascia. Good fluted Ionic half columns to ends and centre, further column flanks house entrance alongside Snifters. Recessed entry at left end of
shopfront. 3 light shop window, plain stallrisers. Canted central entrance to Snifters. Half glazed door, with moulded panel, tilting rectangular fanlight over mosaic sill. Single light shop windows, sinuous heads, turned glazing bars. Chequered tile stallrisers. Domestic entry to right flanked by columns. Panelled reveals. Half glazed door with small panes over moulded panels, plain rectangular fanlight over.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items on Rhosmaen Street.
Group Description
Nos 64 (Snifters) and 66 Rhosmaen Street (NW side)
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