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
15617
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/02/1973
Date of Amendment
27/08/1999
Name of Property
The Red Lion Inn
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandybie
Town
Ammanford
Locality
Llandybie village
Easting
261755
Northing
215567
Street Side
S
Location
At the south side of Llandeilo Road, about 50m west of the Parish Church.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A date-stone on the front states 'This House was Built by David Fisher, Ano Domi 1786'. In 1840 it was described as the Red Lion homestead, on the Cawdor estate, tenanted by David Lewis. It remained a tenancy on the estate until the mid-C20. It was here that Cawdor farm tenants came on Lady Day to pay their rent and be treated to the 'cinio rent' in the upper room.
Exterior
Two-storey public house of 6 windows facing directly onto the road, the front following the slight curve. Creamwashed rubble masonry, the north-east corner slightly rounded. Slate roof with tile ridge; slightly sprocketted at the eaves. Ornamental brackets above window positions. Four pairs of rebuilt brick stacks set diagonally on rendered square bases. Sides and rear plain-rendered and cream coloured. The rear elevation has a staircase projection centrally and to the east a later parallel range of two windows, with fire-escape stairs; to west irregular recent catslide extensions. Single-storey extension at west end.
C19 sash-windows of four panes in exposed frames, in cambered-head openings with brick arches and stone sills. One of the lower windows has been walled up. Central cambered-head doorway. Flat-topped porch in simplified classical style with thin timber columns, architrave and a plain cornice above brackets. Two round columns on low stone bases. The doorway is outlined in plain render; six-panel door, the bottom panels flush. Rectangular overlight. On the transom is a small metal plate with the words 'Air raid warden'.
Interior
Layout of the original single-depth inn or farmhouse still apparent, with the stairs wing projecting opposite the entrance; bar interiors altered.
Reason for designation
A fine late-Georgian country inn of modest character, with much intact detail.
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