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9  

II  

Designated  

28/11/2003  

28/11/2003  

No 9 and front railings  

9 Penllwyn Park  

Carmarthenshire  

Carmarthen  

 

 

240251  

219975  

 

Situated towards NE end of Park, a pair with No 8.  

Domestic  

 

One of a pair of semi-detached houses of c1894-6 probably by G. Morgan & Son of Carmarthen. Penllwyn Park was developed by the Carmarthen Land Co from 1893, with George Morgan as architect. Two villas were built in 1893-4, Radnor House for C.W. Jones JP in 1896, and plans for 5 houses for J. Richards and 5 for Messrs Brown, Thomas & John, builders, all by Morgan are in the National Library. This pair and Nos 12-13 are in Queen Anne style with small-paned windows and much red tile-hanging. The iron railings made by the Old Foundry Co of Carmarthen are distinctive and are a feature of the whole development.  

Semi-detached house, a pair with No 8, late Victorian Queen Anne style. Rendered with timber 2-storey veranda, extensive red tile-hanging and slate deep eaved roofs. Two storeys and attic, 4-window range to the pair. S front framed by big 3-storey canted bays with canted hipped roofs. Recessed centre has paired attic gables with overhanging bargeboards, terracotta finials, and tile-hung gables over 2 3-light windows. Lean-to tiled roof below over 2-storey veranda of 4 bays with turned balusters, and timber posts. First floor posts carry brackets to make shouldered-headed openings, ground floor posts have curved brackets to make arched openings with pierced spandrels. Windows are generally sashes with small panes to top sash only. Narrow triple sashes to centre gables, first floor and ground floor centre tripartite French window with top lights. The canted bays have dentilled eaves cornice, fish-scale tiling between floors, red brick below, and 3 large sash windows each floor with narrow outer side lights. Panelled piers between windows. Rendered side walls formerly with brick stacks. Side wall entrances. Forecourt railings matching others in Penllwyn Park, with rock faced rubble walls, stone coping and low rails with 2 horizontal bars, standards with finials and curving brackets under upper bar. Curving ironwork also under lower bar, with finial over.  

 

Included as part of an unusual ornate late Victorian pair in Queen Anne style, part of a distinctive residential suburb of the late C19.