Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
19226
Building Number
205
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/01/1998
Date of Amendment
09/01/1998
Name of Property
Jims Barber Shop and 207
Address
205 Cwmamman Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Cwmamman
Town
Ammanford
Locality
Garnant
Easting
268453
Northing
213215
Street Side
S
Location
Sited on A474 close to W of junction with New School Road; formerly adjoined the E bank of Nant Main (now in culvert).
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
c1900. Shown on OS map sheet Carmarthenshire XLIX.NW (revised 1905).
Exterior
Two-storey three-bay domestic pair with taller cross-gable to shop forward on left. Slated roofs with brick gable-end stack, plain bargeboards. Pale hammer-dressed quoins and window/door surrounds, arched blue brick attic window to front gable; thinly coursed bull-nosed facings. Eye-catching 2-storey shop frontage to left; upper 3-light display window with fine arched and mullioned lights set in pilastered timber surround under pair of swan-necked volutes. Timber sill rests on flashings to overall moulded fascia of groundfloor shop flanked by bold pilasters topped by block end brackets with rosettes and gablets (swan-neck volutes to right only). Recessed centre doors arched glazed panels and tall fanlight, tiled threshold.
Plainer 2-window elevation with original 4-pane sash window to groundfloor right and 4-panel door.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually well preserved 2-storey shop front of c1900 which illustrates the retail history of this Amman Valley location close to the site of the former Garnant Tinplate Works.
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