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16  

II  

Designated  

19/05/1981  

28/11/2003  

NO.16 SPILMAN STREET,,,,,DYFED,  

16 Spilman Street  

Carmarthenshire  

Carmarthen  

 

 

241476  

220129  

 

Situated in terraced row approximately 25m SWof junction with Parade Road.  

Domestic  

 

Terraced house, early to mid-C19 in detail, but the low scale and asymmetrical elevation suggesting a later C18 origin. Marked on 1834 map. In 1884 occupied by Thomas Davies, solicitor. In 2002 British Red Cross branch office.  

Town house, in informal terrace painted roughcast with close-eaved slate roof and red brick end stacks. Irregular 4-window, 2-storey front. Raised painted plinth with cellar hatch visible to right of doorway, thin sill band and eaves band. Door to left of centre in open-pedimented doorcase with narrow and console brackets. Six-panel door, 4 flush panels, and fanlight with radial and fan tracery. Windows are all 12-pane hornless sashes, one to left of door and 2 to right on ground floor while first floor has 3 roughly evenly spaced windows, only the left one aligned with window below. Painted stone sills. The brick stacks are set just behind ridge.  

Half-glazed internal front door with coloured glass and marginal glazing bars. Ground floor room to right has good earlier C19 cornice with acanthus undercut leaves over egg-and-dart moulding, and ceiling border of anthemion. Staircase with stick balusters, thin rail and scrolled tread ends. Some internal late Georgian or early Victorian shutters remain.  

Included as a good example of a late Georgian town house with good surviving interior detail, part of a consistent group, Nos 12-19 Spilman Street