Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9466
Building Number
33
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1981
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
NOS.33 & 34 KING STREET,,,,,DYFED,
Address
33 King Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Carmarthen
Town
Locality
Easting
241439
Northing
220202
Street Side
Location
Situated some 5m from junction with Little Water Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
House and shop possibly C18 and built as a pair with no 34, but facades altered in the late C19. A part of the medieval town wall of 1415 is incorporated into the cellar wall between Nos 33 and 34. Occupied in 1884 by Mrs. Emma Whitney, grocer and in 1914 and 1926 by Charles H Carpenter, bookseller and stationer. In 2002 a newsagents.
Exterior
House and shop, 2 storeys, 2 bays with imitation slate close-eaved roof and red brick chimney to right. Painted C20 roughcast cladding, 4-pane horned sash windows on first floor and probably early 20 shop front on ground floor. Two 2-pane windows with central recessed half-glazed C20 door with overlight. Plain C20 casing.
Interior
In the cellar, accessible only from No 34 there is a wall of stone rubble running down the party wall, some 2.8m thick, on the line of the medieval town wall of which it probably forms a part.
Reason for designation
Included as a simple late C19 commercial building with earlier origins and for the medieval wall in basement party wall. Group value.
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