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
9522
Building Number
32
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1981
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
32 Quay Street
Address
32 Quay Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Carmarthen
Town
Locality
Easting
241190
Northing
219987
Street Side
Location
Situated some 20m SW of junction with St Mary's Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Altered range, possibly a former service range to No 31, marked on 1834 map, now externally C19 and later. In 1914 a solicitor's office, in 2002 Merlin Construction Ltd.
Quay Street is the most complete street of C18 houses left in Carmarthen, the street formed in the early C12 and already by the late middle ages the street of Carmarthen's most prominent families. No 19, which has been demolished, was dated 1698. It is not yet possible to establish precise dates for the other houses but most of them seem to be of C18 date, some retaining panelling and staircases of the period.
Exterior
Building in terraced row, now offices, unpainted C20 roughcast, slate roof, with red brick stack to right. Two-storey, 2-window range, considerably lower than No 31 but similar height to No 33. Upper floor with two sash windows with 6 panes in upper halves only, to left and right of centre. Ground floor with 2 similar windows aligned each to left of window above. Round-headed archway to through passage to Bull Lane at right. Door at extreme left, 4-panel with deep plain overlight.
In 1981 there was a 6-panel door with 4 moulded and 2 flush panels.
Rear is roughcast with 4-pane sash and through passage entry to ground floor and triple casement to first floor left and fixed window under eaves.
Interior
Wholly modernised.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with surrounding listed items, in the most complete surviving Georgian street in the town.
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