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
87584
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/01/2009
Date of Amendment
09/01/2009
Name of Property
Westmead
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanelli
Town
Llanelli
Locality
Llanelli
Easting
250975
Northing
201231
Street Side
Location
On the corner of Parc Howard Avenue and Felinfoel Road, overlooking Parc Howard.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built 1926-7, to designs by W Griffiths and Son, architects, of Llanelli, for Stanley Pearce, a businessman of the town. Documents in the possession of the owner detail the main contractors, as well as the suppliers of lighting, heating and sanitary fittings, and shed light on the context of building, which was initially hampered by the general strike.
Exterior
House in Queen Anne style. 2 storeyed, 3-bay elevations, slightly canted in plan to accommodate to constricted site. Red brick in Flemish bond, with banded angle pilasters. Red plain tiled hipped roof with pronounced bell-cast at eaves and modillion cornice. 2 angled tall brick stacks with moulded caps.
Elevation to Parc Howard Avenue has central entrance with 6-panelled door with transomed side-lights in moulded architrave with segmental hood. Flanking windows are square bays, each with 3x8-pane sash windows. To the right, this continues to first floor, with tile-hung panel between the storeys, and steep pediment with modillion cornice above. Single sash window above the door, paired 8-pane sash windows to upper left, all with rubbed brick heads.
Elevation to Felinfoel Road is symmetrically arranged with 2 square full-height bays each with 3x8-pane sash windows, tile-hanging between the storeys and steep pediments with modillion cornice. These flank small 8-pane sash windows on each floor, with rubbed brick heads.
Interior
Doorway opens onto small inner lobby with mosaic tiled floor and stained glass (including heraldic emblem) to inner doorway and flanking panels. Central entrance hall and stair well, wrapped round by principal rooms to right and rear, and by kitchen to left; small cloak-room alongside entrance. Staircase rises through three storeys: tall square newels, flat balusters, intermittently pierced, and scrolled tread-ends. Hall has wood-grained finish to dado panelling and doorways. Doors are mainly 3 panelled with tall lower panels and overlights. Other internal joinery includes deep skirting boards, and oak boarded floors. Drawing room to right has tiled fireplace in bolection-moulded surround with shouldered architrave; picture rail. Rear room (formerly the dining room) also has tiled fireplace, with reeded pilasters to architrave and 3-panelled overmantle. Window seats. French doors at rear with stained glass.
Upstairs, original joinery also survives, as does bathroom with original tile-work. Principal bedrooms have original basins in marble surrounds.
Reason for designation
Listed as an exceptionally good example of an ambitious inter-war suburban house, employing a careful Queen-Anne revival style, with high-quality detail. The house is remarkably well-preserved, and retains most of its original detail both internally and externally.
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