Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
9652
Building Number
 
Grade
I  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
25/09/1986  
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986  
Name of Property
Outer Gatehouse to Laugharne Castle  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Laugharne Township  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
230202  
Northing
210794  
Street Side
 
Location
At the bottom of the street near the town Hall, reached by path in front of Castle House.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Rubble 2-storey formerly crenellated gatehouse of late C13/early C14 origin and late. John Perrot alterations (1587-92). N side destroyed in Civil War siege.  

Exterior
Gateway passage flanked by rectangular guardroom chambers to ground floor and central room with side garderobe to upper floor. Voussoired openings, chamfered and spur buttresses, arrowslits with oillets; dragon to weathervane. In a Scheduled Ancient Monument Site.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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