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
11122
Building Number
39
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/10/1972
Date of Amendment
27/08/1999
Name of Property
American Villas
Address
39 Ammanford Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandybie
Town
Ammanford
Locality
Llandybie village
Easting
261924
Northing
215264
Street Side
W
Location
At west side of Ammanford Road, between the Afon Marlais and Rawling Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
One of two houses built in 1897 to a design brought back from Pennsylvania. Built by a local carpenter, Thomas Davies, who had lived and worked since the late 1870s in the USA. They have since remained in the occupation of his family and descendants.
Such examples of modern house-carpentry are very rare before the Great War created the need for innovative constructional experiment.
Exterior
A 'balloon-frame' timber house of slightly different design to its neighbour, No. 41. Two storeys. Gable facing east to the street, with two-bay return elevations to north and south. Single storey unit to the rear, projecting to the north side. A large veranda extends around the east and north sides; it incorporates a decorative gable at the corner emphasising the door position. Clap-boarded walls, slate roofs with tile ridges, brick chimneys; gutters formed with wooden troughs above roof boarding. Veranda with turned timber posts and curved brackets. Timber bargeboards. In places the house is supported on dwarf brick piers. Paired sash windows to gable, with semi-glazed door with margin panes to right; decorative fan design in main and verandah gables. Single sashes to return elevation.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a very unusual instance of the introduction of a foreign constructional technique, American in construction and design character.
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