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
82862
Building Number
21
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/06/2004
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004
Name of Property
21 High Street
Address
21 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandovery
Town
Locality
Easting
276915
Northing
234357
Street Side
S
Location
Situated opposite the Williams Memorial Chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
House in terraced row, C18 origins, the Barley Mow inn from c1840-70. Probably the house recorded as owned by Miss Jones 1810-11. By 1836 Nos 21-9 were all owned by David Thomas (1790-1876) maltster who also owned No 5 and Nos 13-15, tenanted by John Davies. It first appears as the Barley Mow inn in 1841, last mentioned in 1868 though the landord had shop there in 1875. In 1890s owned with the other Thomas propery by D P Powell, occupied by Daniel James.
Exterior
House and shop in terrace row, of 2 storeys and 3 bays slightly offset to left. Slate gabled roof without chimneys. Close eaves. Painted roughcast facade with plinth. Four-pane horned sashes to 1st floor and left hand ground floor, stone sills; central recessed broad house door. Shop front (remade in late C20 in traditional style) to right: with flanking pilasters and cornice over recessed door and shop-window.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a house of single C19 character, and for group value with Nos 19 and 23 and as part of continuous C18-C19 terraced frontage.
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