Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
9745
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/12/1992
Date of Amendment
11/06/2001
Name of Property
Gothic Villa
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
St. Clears
Town
Carmarthen
Locality
St Clears
Easting
227965
Northing
215942
Street Side
W
Location
Situated within a railed forecourt, some 50m N of the old Board School building.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Earlier to mid C19 Gothic villa in the simple Gothic style first used in the mid C18 at buildings such as Strawberry Hill, and for which there is a strong tradition in SW Wales.
Exterior
Two-storey detached house in painted roughcast. Symmetrical 3-bay facade with corner pilaster strips, plinth and first floor sill band. Hipped close-eaved slate roof with two red brick stacks of c.1910 to each end. Pointed recessed Gothic sashes with intersecting glazing bars to both floors, larger to ground floor. Central gabled timber porch on dwarf walls with pierced sides in fretwork Gothic style and slated roof. Pointed panelled timber door, with simple Gothic panels to pointed head. S end has recessed small pointed similar window to ground floor. N wall blank. Modern extension to rear.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good early C19 villa with fine detail in the Gothic style.
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