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
82860
Building Number
15
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/06/2004
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004
Name of Property
15 High Street
Address
15 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandovery
Town
Locality
Easting
276884
Northing
234359
Street Side
S
Location
Situated in terraced row on street line near middle of row opposite No 18.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terraced house, apparently of one build with No 13 and known as Bristol House, dated on door keystone 1823. The pair were built like No 5 for D Thomas, maltster and mercer, (1790-1876), and then owned by D P Powell. Occupied by Mrs Thomas widow in 1836, T Jacket, excise officer in 1844 and 1846, by James Evans in 1866, and A Medcalf in 1892-3. In later 1890s owned and occupied by Joseph Johnson, painter 1895. There was a malthouse behind Nos 13-15 reached via the arch with the dated keystone.
Exterior
Terraced house of 3 storeys and 3 bays plus additional throughway to right, Slate roof without chimneys, with deep bracketed eaves, many brackets missing. Painted roughcast facade, with stucco plinth and surrounds to openings. Three square upper windows either boarded up or with C20 glazing, the surrounds with shoulders and heels; 2 long first floor 4-pane horned sashes with vermiculated keystones to similar surrounds (the middle sash removed but shown in 1926 photograph) and another similar sash to ground floor left. Ground floor right window is wider with 2 C20 fixed panes, former shop window, central recessed 6-panel door with plain overlight. Shopwindow and door have cornice over supported on 4 console brackets. Wide arched doorway to throughway to right with recessed C20 door and date "1823" scratched in stucco above.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as part of a continuous earlier C193ee-storey terraced group along High Street, retaining good late Georgian character.
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