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
9706
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1991
Date of Amendment
05/08/1991
Name of Property
Town Hall & Market Buildings
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Newcastle Emlyn
Town
Locality
Easting
230893
Northing
240724
Street Side
Location
Prominently sited at centre of town, on former market place at junction with Castle Street.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
Dated 1892, designed by David Jenkins of Llandeilo.
Exterior
Market hall with public hall above and attached office wing. Grey rubble stone with ashlar dressings and steel slate roofs. L-plan, 2 storeys, in mixed style combining Jacobean main gable with round-arched and segmental-arched windows and a pyramid roofed S end tower with outsize ogee-domed lantern.
Main range has market and public library below with hall above. Coped W gable with carved square shoulder blocks with ball finials, kneelers below apex which has concave curved sides and semicircular shell pediment with finial. Apex date plaque 1892. Triplet of arched first floor windows with 2-light timber tracery and 2 arched ground floor doorways, now windows, ashlar quoins. At N end, a one-window projection with hipped roof and apex red brick stack. Main roof is half-hipped to rear with outside stairs to arched upper door. Sides have 3 plain cambered-head sashes above and various openings below, some altered. N side has slate-roofed shelter on thin iron columns and S side angle to S wing was formerly similarly roofed.
S wing has 3-window range to street and then square S end tower with steep pyramid roof, arch-headed dormers with cusped timber single lights, and timber square lantern with louvres below clock-faces with overhanging arched timber hoods and octagonal leaded ogee cap. Upper windows are segmental-headed 4-pane sashes on W side, 3 and then one to tower, ground floor has 4 blocked windows and arched doorway to tower with small window to right. S end has 4-pane window below and 8-pane above, broken through ashlar sill band. Ashlar quoins. Chamfered SE angle.
Old photographs show a considerable amount of ornamental applied timber decoration to tower dormers and lower part of clock tower, now plainly louvred.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value
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