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
22397
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/09/1999
Date of Amendment
30/09/1999
Name of Property
Old Post Office
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Myddfai
Town
Llandovery
Locality
Myddfai
Easting
277237
Northing
230082
Street Side
Location
Situated in centre of village, opposite Plough Inn, attached to Church House.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terraced house, a pair with Church House to left, possibly of same date, mid to later C19, but possibly remodelling older range. There are buildings on the site marked on 1839 Tithe Map. Ground floor left has original shopfront with separate door. Stucco detail is possibly early C20.
Exterior
House and former shop. Unpainted roughcast with unpainted stucco dressings in contrasted colours, and slate roof. Roughcast left stack with yellow and black brick top, shared with Church House, and smaller red brick right end stack. Two storeys, three-window range of sashes with marginal glazing bars, and centre panelled door with overlight. Shopfront to ground floor left, painted timber with fascia continued over centre house door. Panelled piers with console brackets, one each side of shopfront, one each side of house door, and continuous cornice. Shopfront has 6-pane shopwindow and half-glazed double doors with overlight. Coloured glass in margins of door glazing. Both shop and house door are recessed in panelled reveals.
Early C20 stucco detail, brown window surrounds with keystones, sill band with inset band of small modillion brackets, and eaves band. Angle piers each floor with pale grey inset fluted panels.
Letter-box to ground floor right marked ER.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved C19 house and shop combined, retaining C19 detail including original shop entry and shop window. Part of a virtually intact and coherent group of houses in the centre of the village.
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