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
27069
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
05/11/2002  
Date of Amendment
05/11/2002  
Name of Property
Albion House, including forecourt railings  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Llansteffan  
Town
Carmarthen  
Locality
Llansteffan  
Easting
235110  
Northing
210816  
Street Side
S  
Location
Situated at the S side of the High Street, at W end of a terraced row, opposite The Brackens  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Village house formerly Albion inn, earlier C19, recorded as part of the Laques estate in 1855.  

Exterior
Early C19 end-terrace house, roughcast, 2 storeys, 3-window range. Slate eaves roof with end stacks, brown brick to W, taller rendered stack to E. Raised first floor sill band and narrow stucco surrounds to openings. Twelve-pane sashes with painted stone sills and painted reveals, hornless sashes to first floor. Central panelled timber door, half-glazed, within large C20 timber glazed porch with flat leaded roof over. Forecourt wall is slate-capped rubble stone with square end-piers having stepped pyramidal stone caps. Wall carries typical locally-made wrought-iron rails with broad scrolls between two horizontal bars. Upper bar has spearheads with small flanking scrolls. Paired gates to centre with similar spearheads and scrolls, middle bar with outsize scrolls above and dog-bars below. Bottom margin.  

Interior
Not inspected. Said to have broad central hall and central timber staircase with panelled timber internal doors.  

Reason for designation
Included as a good early C19 town house of late Georgian character.  

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