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
25632
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/08/2001
Date of Amendment
06/08/2001
Name of Property
1 Piccadilly Square
Address
1 Piccadilly Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanboidy
Town
Whitland
Locality
Llanboidy
Easting
221576
Northing
223283
Street Side
Location
First house of terrace of four on N side of square, about 70m up from churchyard gates.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terraced house of a row of four, part of an unusual later C19 development for the Maesgwynne estate, comprising the terrace, a pair of semi-detached houses on the E side, and 2 detached houses. The architect was almost certainly George Morgan of Carmarthen, whom W.R.H. Powell employed elsewhere in the village at the time. W. R. H. Powell (1819-89) of Maesgwynne was a prominent improving landlord and sporting figure, MP for E. Carmarthenshire for about 20 years. He rebuilt much of the village of Llanboidy including the Maesgwynne Arms hotel, the church, the Market Hall, the School and many of the houses. Powell was a noted breeder of racehorses and hounds, master of fox-hounds for many years, and very large crowds came to meetings at the racecourse he laid out SW of the village.
Exterior
No 1 has rendered left end wall and all windows and door are replaced.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included despite alteration as part of a later C19 country estate housing development, rare in the region.
Group Description
1-4 Piccadilly Square
Terraced houses, mirrored row of four Victorian estate cottages with minimal Gothic detail, rubble stone with brick dressings, slate eaves roof and crested ridge tiles. Four red brick chimneys. Each house is of two storeys and two bays with a casement-pair timber window over the door, under the eaves, and a 3-light mullion-and-transom window each floor in the other bay, the ground floor window in a rendered rusticated surround with hoodmould, the upper window with timber lintel breaking the eaves under a shallow gable with plain bargeboards and red terracotta finial. As the terrace is mirrored Nos 1 and 2 have the door in the right bay, Nos 3 and 4 in the left, each door under a slate pent hood on carved diagonal supports with Gothic cusping in the triangle above the supports. Red brick jambs to all openings except ground floor main window. Overhanging verges to gable ends.
Since the later C20 two houses of the terrace have been heavily altered.
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