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
20185
Building Number
16
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/07/1998
Date of Amendment
28/07/1998
Name of Property
Morfa House
Address
16 Bridge Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Kidwelly
Town
Kidwelly
Locality
Kidwelly/Cydweli
Easting
240703
Northing
206792
Street Side
W
Location
Situated in terraced row on main road (A 484) some 40m S of Kidwelly Bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early C19 house with later C19 shop front.
Exterior
Pebbledash with slate roof and rendered end stacks. Three-storey, three-window range, off-set to left, with painted timber cornice and low parapet. Later C19 or C20 horned sashes, 4-pane square to upper floor, plate-glass to first floor, all with stone sills. Ground floor has fine Victorian painted timber shopfront with pilasters and overall entablature with cornice. Fascia lettering in raised capitals, painted to imitate marble: 'Morfa House' to left, and 'Chemist' to right. Pilasters frame house door to left, 4-panel with overlight, then three more pilasters frame shop door and window. Deeply recessed half-glazed shop door with overlight, aligned with centre windows above. Shop-window to right, 4-light with mid transom and elliptical-arched heads to lights. Pilaster between the shop window and shop door is broader than the others. Pilasters have plain stucco plinths and moulded caps.
Interior
Iron columns inside shop.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good late Georgian facade with rare complete Victorian shopfront.
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