The Post Office (left hand building) is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 November 2003. Post office. 3 related planning applications.
The Post Office (left hand building)
- WRENN ID
- scarred-tallow-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 November 2003
- Type
- Post office
- Address
- The Post Office (left hand building), 10 King Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1AA
- OS grid reference
- SN 413 201
- Coordinates
- 51.8569, -4.30497
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Post Office is a three-storey building constructed in Bath stone with an ashlar facade and a slate roof, featuring a parapet and an ornate cornice. It is designed in the Edwardian Baroque style and has five bays. The cornice is decorated with modillions, an egg and dart motif, and acanthus roundels at each end.
The second-floor windows have moulded stone surrounds and contain 9-pane horned sashes. The first-floor windows are 12-pane horned sashes set in moulded, shouldered surrounds, each topped with large triple keystones that extend into the bases of open curved pediments. The upper floor windows have moulded sills. A band on the first floor is inscribed with "POST OFFICE" and is positioned above the large keystones of the ground floor openings.
In the second bay from the left, there are four 12-pane sash windows and a door, all within bolection-moulded surrounds that feature triple keystones. The windows have apron panels below the sills. The door is located beneath a 6-pane fixed overlight and has a granite step. Notably, the second bay from the right contains a brass post box set into the wall below the window. Historical photographs indicate that the right-hand window was originally a door, which had a stone open pediment on scroll consoles above the doorcase, with the letter box situated in the middle window.
The ground floor has been altered.
Local climate
The Post Office (left hand building) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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