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
82101
Building Number
12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1981
Date of Amendment
04/02/2026
Name of Property
12 Quay Street
Address
12 Quay Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Carmarthen
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
Easting
241162
Northing
219918
Street Side
SE
Location
Situated at lower end of street on corner to Little Bridge Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terraced house, probably later C18, originally a mirrored pair with No 11 and part of a row of 4, of which the lower 2 were demolished after 1953. Marked on John Wood’s 1834 Plan of Carmarthen and the 1839 Tithe Map. In 1884 occupied by Miss Elizabeth Davies, music teacher. Divided into flats late C20.
Quay Street is the most complete street of C18 houses left in Carmarthen, the street formed in the early C12 and by the late Middle Ages was the street of Carmarthen's most prominent families. No 19, which has been demolished, was dated 1698. It is not yet possible to establish precise dates for the other houses but most of them seem to be of C18 date, some retaining panelling and staircases of the period.
Exterior
End-terrace house, lilac-painted roughcast. Slate close-eaved roof with rear rooflights and C20 raised eaves band. Broad, stepped, stuccoed stack at right. 2-storey, 3-window range with basement, mirrored pair with No 11. such that inner bay has paired doors and paired windows above. Windows replaced early C21.
Façade has 12-pane sashes in original openings with plain raised surrounds, and altered sills. 3 windows above and 2 below to centre and right, with door to left. Small cellar openings beneath windows. 2 steps up to replacement door with overlight in original common doorcase with No. 11, with pilaster and flat moulded hood on shaped brackets.
At rear, recessed door at basement level, to right with sidelight, and central 12-pane sashes. Ground floor and first floor have 12-pane sashes to left. 3 irregular openings to right corresponding with staircase, square top and ground floor, rectangular at first floor, again all 12-pane sashes.
Interior
To left, closed string staircase with square newels, turned column balusters and moulded wide rail, in 4 flights. All doors replaced.
Reason for designation
Included despite alteration to door and windows as a Georgian terraced house in important position at end of the principal surviving Georgian street of the town.
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