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
82865
Building Number
38
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/06/2004
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004
Name of Property
38 High Street
Address
38 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandovery
Town
Locality
Easting
276976
Northing
234371
Street Side
N
Location
Situated on E side of junction with Orchard Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Corner house and shop, formerly The Crown Inn. First listed as an inn in 1826, in 1836 listed as an inn and another premises, owned by D Davies stonemason and then by his son to c1875; they were also coal merchants. The inn seems to have ceased c1860 and then become a grocer and sundries shop and tallow chandler. The premises look as if reconstructed as a shop rather than an inn, with later C19 character, though the rear wing to Orchard Street has an earlier character.
Exterior
Mid C19 house and shop with rear wing, in the Georgian tradition. High Street elevation 2-storey, and 2 wide bays. Fairly shallow-pitched slate gabled roof with grey brick chimneys to left and right. Deep eaves with paired eaves brackets. Painted stucco facade with plinth and long and short quoins to left and right (absent to left ground floor where shop front turns corner). Windows have square-headed moulded surrounds with white quartz stone inlay, and keystones. Two 12-pane hornless sashes to upper floor, and one to ground floor right. Ground floor right window is further right than upper right window which is over house door. C20 house door with overlight with arched lights. Shopfront occupies left half of ground floor with corniced fascia over, extended over house door. Shop front has recessed central C20 1/2 glazed shop door between 2-pane plate glass windows and a similar pane canted-in to shop door. A single pane on left hand return to Orchard Street. Shopfront has moulded sill.
Left gable end has long and short quoins, 2 bays with aligned 4-pane horned sashes with similar surrounds to those on front.
A lower rear wing has roof on line of those in Orchard Street, but with 3 small storeys rather than the 2 of the rest of the street. Deep eaves, two 4-pane sashes to each upper floor, the upper ones shorter, and one to ground floor centre, all without surrounds. Ground floor window is between 2 doorways: broad double doors to coach-entry to left and single house door with overlight to right. Raised plinth.
Interior
Iron columns visible inside shop windows. Shop has wooden floors and fittings.
Reason for designation
Included as C19 corner building with shop, retaining good later Georgian character.
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