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.
Date of Designation
05/11/2002
Date of Amendment
05/11/2002
Name of Property
Plas-y-Coed
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Location
Set well back from the street, situated beyond a lawned forecourt with decorative railings, immediately S of Park Villa.
History
Later C19 detached house possibly built by David Jenkins, builder, of Llansteffan in 1874. It was probably occupied by Mary James, farmer, in 1881. One of a pair of villas with Park House adjoining.
Exterior
House, unpainted roughcast and stucco with hipped slate eaves roof and red brick end stacks. Two storeys, three-window facade with channelled piers to angles and matching jambs to first floors windows, the heads with incised voussoirs. Sash windows with marginal glazing bars and slate sills. Ground floor 4-panel door with rectangular overlight in wide timber doorcase with cornice on console brackets. Flanking ground floor bays have 3-sided canted bay windows with dwarf stucco walls beneath continuous stone sills and sashes with marginal glazing bars. Hipped slate roofs.
Reason for designation
Included as a good late C19 villa of definite quality and character forming a pair with Park View.
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