Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
25/09/1986
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986
Name of Property
Outer Gatehouse to Laugharne Castle
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Laugharne Township
Location
At the bottom of the street near the town Hall, reached by path in front of Castle House.
History
Rubble 2-storey formerly crenellated gatehouse of late C13/early C14 origin and late. John Perrot alterations (1587-92). N side destroyed in Civil War siege.
Exterior
Gateway passage flanked by rectangular guardroom chambers to ground floor and central room with side garderobe to upper floor.
Voussoired openings, chamfered and spur buttresses, arrowslits with oillets; dragon to weathervane.
In a Scheduled Ancient Monument Site.
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