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
26741
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/07/2002
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Sarnau Mansion
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Newchurch and Merthyr
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
Bancyfelin
Easting
233657
Northing
218883
Street Side
Location
Situated at the end of a drive some 300m N of the A40 and approximately 1.2 km E of Bancyfelin.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Small country house of 1820 built for John Waters, banker of Carmarthen. The house is recorded when offered for sale in 1833, following difficulties at the bank, as consisting of 'an excellent dining room and breakfast room, best bedrooms, servants' rooms, nursery, and suitable offices attached, the whole being fit for the residence of a genteel family'. It was not sold. In 1840 owned by Thomas Waters, tenanted by Philip James, in 1849 owned and occupied by Robert Waters, in 1873 owned by Thomas Waters, his heir Dr Edward Waters died in 1891 and Lt-Col W H H Waters was there in 1912. Occupied by Capt D Powel 1926. Later sold to the Buckley family of the Llanelli brewery.
Exterior
House in mildly neo-classical style, white painted roughcast with slate pyramid roof, paired brackets to eaves, and brick apex stack. Tall brick right end stack. Two-storey, 3-window front of 16-pane sashes, centre door in columned flat-roofed open porch, pair of stucco columns each side, and 2 half-columns as responds. Cornice broken forward over outer columns. Six-panel door with traceried overlight.
Three-window left side with big arched recesses to ground floor framing 16-pane sash each side, blank window to centre. Plinth broken forward for each pier. First floor has 16-pane sash each side and blank centre window.
Right side single-storey addition with hipped roof behind flat screen wall with French window to front. Large C20 2-storey flat-roofed addition behind with small-paned sashes. Rear of main block, whitewashed rubble stone, with 4 12-pane sashes above, 2 to left, one centre left, one right of centre, and ground floor French window right of centre, and 12-pane sash and narrow window under the 2 left windows.
Interior
Entrance hall with principal rooms on left side and staircase to rear right. Hall has 6-panel doors to left and right and one straight ahead, and moulded cornice. Panelled arch to rear right to stair hall.
Reason for designation
Included for its special architectural interest as a compact late Georgian country house.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export