Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9638
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/11/1966
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Brown's Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Laugharne Township
Town
Locality
Easting
230208
Northing
210919
Street Side
Location
Set into a continuous row of frontages near the crossroads with Victoria Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Dated 1752; 1938 restoration and modern alterations.
Dylan Thomas frequented the bar during his years in Laugharne and the interior is now decorated with memorabilia. The bar is said to have been made out of the pulpit of the destroyed Congregational Chapel.
Exterior
Georgian 2-storey and attic 3-window roughcast front. Tall proprietary slate roof with lowered eaves, rendered chimney stacks; modern swept roof dormers. Recessed 12-pane sash windows to 1st floor; splayed bays below with advanced moulded cornices and sash glazing. Central porch with Doric columns, brackets over pilasters behind; boarded door. Lettered panel between second and third floors with shield containing the dates 1752 and 1938 to the centre. Plaque to left reads "This Pine End Belongs to G James 1752".
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value.
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