Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9567
Building Number
34
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/05/1981
Date of Amendment
28/11/2003
Name of Property
NO.34 QUAY STREET,,,,,DYFED,
Address
34 Quay Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Carmarthen
Town
Locality
Easting
241203
Northing
220002
Street Side
Location
Situated on the junction with St Mary's Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
End terrace house on corner site probably of mid C18 origin, altered in C19. Marked on 1834 map of Carmarthen as an inn. Listed in 1884 as the Union Hall public house, run by Edward Thomas. Offices by early C20.
Exterior
Terraced corner house with elevations to Quay Street and St Mary Street. Painted stucco cladding, with steep imitation-slate roof hipped at corner, boxed eaves and shared stone stack at left end. Two storey and cellar, 3-window range to Quay St, upper floor with 4-pane sash at either end and narrow sash to left of centre; ground floor with C20 4-panel door to left and 4-pane sashes left of centre and right, beneath upper windows. Corner chamfered up to first floor level.
St. Mary's Street elevation with single 4-pane sash to centre right above, 2 similar windows on ground floor, one aligned, one to left. C20 cellar window to right.
Brick stack over eaves in 1981 list now missing, as also left hand cellar opening on Quay St.
Interior
Interior all modernised.
Reason for designation
Included as a Georgian house of more vernacular type than others in Quay Street, in an important corner position.
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