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
82869
Building Number
7
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/06/2004
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004
Name of Property
7 High Street
Address
7 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llandovery
Town
Locality
Easting
276858
Northing
234361
Street Side
S
Location
Situated in terraced row, between taller Nos 5 and 9.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
House in terraced row, former Sun Inn, recorded from early C19, though external detail all later C19 and later. The Sun is recorded in 1826 and last recorded in 1868 directory, in 1895 occupied by William Jones hairdresser. Owned by 1866 by David Thomas, maltster and owner of No 5, No 23 and other High Street properties. In early C20 premises of Thomas Bowen, butcher, shown in photograph of c1910 with a shopfront to ground floor left flanked by pilasters with consoles and cornice continuous from surviving doorcase, the shopfront since replaced by a 4-pane sash. The facade was rendered and lined as ashlar.
Exterior
Small house in informal terrace. Two storeys and 3 bays with slate gabled roof and tall rendered chimney against side of No 5 to right. Close eaves. Pebbledash facade with horned 4-pane sashes to 1st and ground floors, of larger and more square proportions to left hand ground floor. Central recessed 4-panel door with plain rectangular overlight, and plain wooden surround with scrolled brackets supporting simple cornice.
Rear is rendered with 4 first floor early C20 cross-windows.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a small early C19 building with consistent late C19 character; part of a group with other buildings on High Street.
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