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
82117
Building Number
3
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/11/2003
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
3 Queen Street
Address
3 Queen Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Carmarthen
Town
Locality
Easting
241363
Northing
220031
Street Side
Location
Situated near SE end of street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Earlier C19 house, with shop built as a pair with no 2. It shares eaves cornice with No 2 but the facade canted back, leaving the left side of the eaves far-projecting. Possibly a rebuild, there are buildings marked on site on 1834 map. Occupied in 2002 by John Farr-Davies & Co, solicitors.
Exterior
House with shop in informal terrace. Unpainted stucco, slate roof with paired brackets to eaves cornice in line with that of No 2 and which widen to the left as the wall of No 3 is angled to follow the street line. Three-storey, 2-window range of renewed 12-pane sashes, offset to right. Ground floor altered in C20 with roughcast around 3-light shop window to left and doorway to right, under C20 cornice and fascia. Stuccoed step up to C20 8-panel door with top 2 panels glazed. C20 hanging sign to left of first floor.
Interior
Ground floor and stair modernised.
Reason for designation
Included as a part of a late Georgian pair with No 2, with which it shares a cornice, with good renewed Georgian detail to the upper floors.
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