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
82212
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/11/2003  
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003  
Name of Property
Wall of former gaol W of County Hall  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Carmarthen  
Town
 
Locality
Castle Hill  
Easting
241296  
Northing
219966  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated around W side of County Hall car park  

Description


Broad Class
Institutional  
Period
 

History
Part of surrounding wall to former Carmarthen Gaol built 1789-92 by John Nash, altered in the C19 and demolished in 1938 for the new County Hall. Aerial photographs show the wall as now behind the castle gatehouse running N but also walls around S and SE to the gatehouse facing down Spilman Street, all now gone. The section behind the medieval castle gatehouse may contain parts of the pre C15 gatehouse. A further section to N of County Hall also survives (listed separately).  

Exterior
Tall length of rubble stone retaining wall to W side of County Hall, set within former Carmarthen Castle curtain wall. Curved angles to either end. Cement coping. Taller section to centre with roundel blocked in rubble, and smaller roundel beneath with red brick dressings, blocked in brick. Pedestrian door with red brick dressings and concrete lintel and C20 boarded door. To lower section, far right of this, is cambered red brick head to blocked opening.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included as surviving element of Nash's Carmarthen Gaol and for group value with Carmarthen Castle and County Hall.  

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