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
26747
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/07/2002
Date of Amendment
08/07/2002
Name of Property
The Close
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Meidrim
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
Meidrim
Easting
228915
Northing
220995
Street Side
W
Location
Situated on the W side of the B4299 some 200m N of the crossroads in the centre of Meidrim.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Earlier C19 house remodelled in late C19, c1885. Marked on 1841 Tithe map as Close, a holding of 46 acres (18.6 hectares). Occupied at that time by Howard Griffiths and owned by George Bowen who owned seven farms in the community totalling some 690 acres (279.5 hectares). Owned by Mrs Evans in 1926. Front roughcast c1939, windows renewed in 1972.
Exterior
House, painted roughcast with slate roofs. L-plan, 2 storeys with 3-window front range. Front range has flat eaves with paired brackets, yellow brick end stacks and stucco angle quoins. First floor windows have eared stucco surrounds, marginal glazing bars, thin sill course below, ground floor 2 later C19 timber bay windows with bell-cast slate roofs, moulded cornices with brackets and dentils, and fluted pilasters. Sashes have shaped heads to top panes. Centre C20 door in eared surround. Overhanging verges with brackets to gable ends. NW rear wing has E side timber casements renewed in C20, said to replace sashes. First floor has long stair light to left, then small window and then 2 paired casements. Ground floor has small window under stair light to left, and 3 paired casements, the centre one possibly a former door. Small red brick end stack, added lean-to on end wall. W side of rear wing is of painted rubble stone. Single-storey outbuilding attached to W end of N lean-to, rubble stone with brick W stack.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a C19 village house with good late C19 detail to the bays, and as part of a small courtyard group with the outbuildings.
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