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
11093
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/06/1991
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Former Reading room & Library
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandeilo
Town
Locality
Easting
262980
Northing
222382
Street Side
Location
Reached via a narrow tunnel passage alongside No 115 opposite the Angel Hotel.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
1851 rebuilding of a Calvinistic Methodist Chapel of l788. Later converted to use as a library and reading room.
Exterior
2 storey, snecked rubble masonry. Hipped tiled roof, boarded eaves, paired modillions.
l6 pane sash window set under eaves to lst floor level, stone voussoirs. Stone staircase with iron handrails up to broad depressed arched doorway, stone voussoirs. Radial fanlight over double doors with deep round arched moulded panels
Stone tablet commemorating rebuilding of l851 to right.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed principally for elevation to tunnel passage.
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