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
21991
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/07/1999
Date of Amendment
19/07/1999
Name of Property
The Limes Shop
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llangadog
Town
Llangadog
Locality
Llangadog
Easting
270670
Northing
228289
Street Side
S
Location
Situated on S side of square, on corner of Dyrfal Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Late C18 town-house, in use as shop since at least later C19. Marked on 1839 Tithe Map as owned by James Thomas (owner also of The Limes adjacent to the rear) and occupied by Benjamin Thomas.
Exterior
House and shop, roughcast with slate hipped valley roof behind parapets, and 2 S end stacks. Three storeys with 3-window range to the square, 4-window range to Dyrfal Road. Parapets are coped each with 4 raised piers over plain square cornice. N front to the square has 3 arched small upper windows with small-paned casements, first floor large arched sash to left, Palladian tripartite sash window to right, both with radiating glazing bars to head of arch over 12 panes; tripartite window has 4-pane sidelights. Ground floor has later C19 overall timber shopfront of 3 plate glass shop windows with door between second and third. Overall dentilled cornice and pilasters with consoles, paired pilasters flanking windows, single flanking door, but these carried down to ground where the others are stopped at a sill. Double half-glazed doors and overlight. At angles large rounded stone bollards. Rusticated angle quoins.
W elevation to Dyrfal Road has angle quoins and 3-bay parapet, 4-pane sashes, those to upper floor square and outer ones blank. Ground floor has 2 blank windows left, 2 boarded windows with slighty higher heads to right.
Interior
Ground floor wholly altered as shop.
Reason for designation
Included as an ambitious late C18 townhouse with fine elevation to the square, and good later C19 shopfront. Of townscape importance in closing view up Church Street, and one of an important series of good C18 and C19 town houses in the village.
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