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
80852
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/01/2003
Date of Amendment
30/01/2003
Name of Property
Neuadd Llangathen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llangathen
Town
Locality
Llangathen
Easting
258274
Northing
222185
Street Side
Location
Approximately 200m WNW of Llangathen church, set back from a minor road between Broad Oak and Golden Grove.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Built as a temperance hall in 1906 by Mrs Mayhew of Aberglasney (details on a foundation stone). Mrs Mayhew and her husband Colonel Charles Mayhew were committed teetotallers who held Temperance rallies at Aberglasney, where they lived 1902-8.
Exterior
A Tudor-Gothic style village hall comprising a main gabled range with steeply pitched roof, shorter turrets projecting forwards at the ends, behind which are hipped lean-tos against the gable end of the main range. Walls are rendered in black-and-white style, the roof is slate. The front has 3 2-light bay windows, of which the outer are under outshut roofs, the inner with a hipped roof below a central gable. The windows have coloured glass above transoms. Between the windows are 2 boarded doors with strap hinges. The outer turrets have 4-light small-pane windows in the upper storey, below pyramidal roofs with iron finials. The L-hand turret has a foundation stone at plinth level. On the L side, the lean-to behind the turret has a central boarded door flanked by 3-light small-pane windows. The rear has bay windows and central gable similar to the front.
Interior
The main range has a 5-bay arched-brace roof.
Reason for designation
Listed as a public building of distinctive Edwardian character and a rare well-preserved temperance hall.
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