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
22017
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
20/07/1999
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Cornwallis Flats
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanwrda
Town
Llanwrda
Locality
Llanwrda
Easting
271219
Northing
231562
Street Side
Location
Situated just SW of Llanwrda Primary School, set back from road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Unusually large almshouses built in 1793-5. Letitia Cornwallis left £400 in the 1730s to house spinsters of sound repute. Due to disputes the will was not implemented until the 1790s. The two 2-storey parallel blocks with short connecting range, i.e. H-plan, suggest an internal plan of some sophistication but this was altered in conversion to flats. The 5-bay main ranges originally had 3 doors according to 1948 photographs (now one) and there were entries in lean-tos each side of the connecting spine. Said to have been originally 4 flats, 2 each floor in each range, altered 1974 to 4 single flats and 2 double flats.
Exterior
Almshouses, now flats. Dry-dash C20 cladding, replacing roughcast, hipped slate roofs with modillion cornices and rendered chimneys. Two storeys, H-plan, of two 5-window ranges facing S and N, linked by a short parallel-roofed hipped block with long lean-tos E and W. Each range has 4 rear wall chimneys. Detail is mostly C20 echoing original, 12-pane horned sashes with concrete sills. Original single centre front door to each range with radiating-bar fanlight and panelled door (originally there were 3 such doors, the outer ones blocked on S front, N front unrecorded). One-window range to each end wall, and long lean-to roofs between end walls have C20 mirror-paired 2 doors and 2 windows.
Interior
Said to be much altered in conversion, but rear range has centre passage with hall arch and stairs off right end apparently original.
Reason for designation
Included despite alterations as a Georgian almshouse group of remarkable scale and design.
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