Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
9664
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
25/09/1986  
Date of Amendment
25/09/1986  
Name of Property
Globe House (including SB & RB Gleed, Butcher's Shop)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Laugharne Township  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
230188  
Northing
210840  
Street Side
 
Location
Opposite the town Hall at the end of the street, on the corner with Duncan Street. Formerly the Globe Hotel, sold in 1869.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Mid C19 (now show on 1834 survey map) late Georgian double pile plan.  

Exterior
3-storey and basement 3-window rendered front with 2nd floor cill band. Slate roof, projecting eaves, brick and rubble chimney stacks. 2-storey bay to left with small pane sash glazing and dentiled cornices; paired sash windows to swept roof dormer above. Wide bracketed hood to doorways of house and shop; 6-panel door to house, boarded stable door to shop with later bay window. Cement render twin gabled left side with cill band, end pilaster strip, plinth and sash windows. Cross ranage extends along Duncan Street (N side) in which cambered archway with keystone and double boarded doors lead to rectangular cobbled courtyard with whitewashed rubble inner walls.  

Interior
Interior retains contemporary detail including Regency fireplaces, one with paired columns; shutters, cornices and panelled doors. Narrow ballroom to cross range.  

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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