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
9562
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1981
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
Walls and railings in front of Nos 9 & 10
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Carmarthen
Town
Locality
Easting
241169
Northing
219937
Street Side
Location
Situated along pavement edge in front of houses some 20m from junction with Little Bridge Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Front railing and steps in front of Nos 9 and 10, originally late C18 to earlier C19, almost entirely remade in late C20.
Exterior
Low terrace wall of stone to raised pavement, increasing in height downhill to right, surmounted by iron railings with slender uprights, and the top rail ramped down to each side of a flight of 3 steps opposite No 9. Standards with urn finials. Two bays to left of steps, 4 to right, the railings extending as far as separate steps and railings leading up to doorway of No 10. Terrace wall extends further, to near right hand end of No. 10. Almost all railings are renewed in replica since 1981, apart from one section each side of steps opposite No 9.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Nos 9 and 10, and as a townscape feature in the princiapl surviving Georgian street of the town.
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