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
9642
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Gainsford House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Laugharne Township
Town
Locality
Easting
230177
Northing
210962
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
The adjoining Post Office was formerly the stores to Gainsford House with later alterations and no longer of special interest.
Exterior
Later C19, built by the local David family, became a hotel and then a chemist in early C20. Victoria Gothic (? stype of J P Seddon) 2-storey, 5-window bull-nosed rubble (said to be cornish stone) front with freestone window dressings; rusticated quoins and plinth. Slate roof, brick and rubble chimney stacks and bracket eaves. Tripartite horned sash windows with depressed arched heads and brick banded voussoir lintels to 1st floor; steeper pointed arched heads to ground floor right with rubble voussoirs; similar treatment to central 6-panel door entrance. Shop front to left with paired semi-circular headed lights flanking pointed arched half-glazed entrance.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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