80702

 

II  

Designated  

03/12/2002  

03/12/2002  

Dolgwm Stores  

 

Carmarthenshire  

Llanybydder  

 

Llanybydder  

251954  

244007  

 

Facing the Black Lion Inn 100m NE of the parish church.  

Commercial  

 

Built in the third quarter of the C19 as a market hall and shown on the 1891 Ordnance Survey. It was originally open-fronted in the lower storey. In the late C19 it was converted to shops when a bay window was added to the L side, probably for a grocery. The R-hand bay at some time became a butcher''s shop, as it has a typical sash window and marble sill of the late C19. The rear was said to have housed a cobbler''s shop. The second edition of the Ordnance Survey, of 1905, describes the building as the Town Hall, which probably refers to the use of the upper storey. This is said to have subsequently contained snooker tables, when it was used as a workmen''s institute.  

A 2-storey 3-bay shop with a snecked dressed stone front, and hipped slate roof on projecting plastered eaves. In the lower storey the openings are elliptical stone arches, hidden in the L-hand bay behind an added late C19 bay window. In the centre bay are replaced half-lit boarded doors. In the R-hand bay is an inserted late C19 2 over single-pane sash window and marble sill in the place of an original doorway. The upper storey has 12-pane hornless sash windows under flat stone arches. The side and rear walls are rubble stone with darker grey quoins. In the L side wall is an added 2-storey brick lean-to of the mid C20. In the R side wall is, on the L side, an inserted boarded door with overlight, and a blocked window to the R (the former cobbler''s shop), both openings with blue-brick dressings. The rear has a central blocked doorway under a segmental head.  

Interior partitions have been removed in the lower storey. The first floor is supported on 2 spine beams with wooden columns. Some slate flagstones are retained. The arches on the ground floor retain iron pintles, indicating original iron gates.  

Listed as a former C19 market building retaining definite architectural character in a prominent position near the centre of the town.