Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82199
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/11/2003
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
Section of former gaol wall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Carmarthen
Town
Locality
Easting
241365
Northing
219983
Street Side
Location
Situated along N side of County Hall.
Description
Broad Class
Institutional
Period
History
Part of surrounding wall to former Carmarthen Gaol built 1789-92 by John Nash, which was altered in the C19 and demolished in 1938 for the new County Hall. An aerial photograph shows the W gaol wall as now behind the castle gatehouse and also walls around to the S and SE, to the entrance gatehouse facing down Spilman Street, all now gone. However this NE wall which ran from the gatehouse to the castle motte is not visible, presumably as it backed onto the row of buildings shown in the photograph running W from the Gaol entrance. A further section W of the County Hall also survived. Listed seperately.
Exterior
Tall rubble stone wall running from edge of the castle mound to entrance to County Hall car park from Spilman Street.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for historic interest as a part of the enclosure of the former Carmarthen gaol and for group value with County Hall.
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