Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11882
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
07/11/1980
Date of Amendment
28/07/1998
Name of Property
The Masons Arms
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Kidwelly
Town
Kidwelly
Locality
Kidwelly/Cydweli
Easting
240816
Northing
207213
Street Side
W
Location
Situated on W side of main road (A 484) N of centre of Kidwelly, in terraced row, some 120m N of Ferry Road junction.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
C18 public house, possibly including earlier core. One of the last thatched roofs of S.W. Wales to have been consistently maintained. Old photographs show that the terraced row was continuous, the house to S demolished in C20.
Exterior
Roughcast with thatched roof and end stacks, brick to left, rendered to right. Two storeys, the upper windows under eaves with thatch eyebrows over. Three-window range, door between second and third windows. Windows openings are narrow, C20 glazing to upper windows, ground floor hornless 12-pane sash to left, horned 4-pane sashes to centre and right. 4-panel door.
S end wall rebuilt in modern brick when adjoining house was demolished. Rear obscured by C20 full-length lean-to.
Interior
Ground floor wholly altered. Projecting chimneybreast at N end.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C18 public house with one of the last consistently-maintained thatched roof in the region.
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