Ty Gelli Aur/Golden Grove House, with steps and railings is a Grade II* listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 August 1954. House. 1 related planning application.

Ty Gelli Aur/Golden Grove House, with steps and railings

WRENN ID
weathered-iron-ebony
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 August 1954
Type
House
Address
Ty Gelli Aur/Golden Grove House, with steps and railings, 10 Quay Street, Carmarthen, SA31 3JT
OS grid reference
SN 411 199
Coordinates
51.85529, -4.30764
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ty Gelli Aur, also known as Golden Grove House, is a substantial terraced house dating from the late 20th century. It features painted stucco on its exterior and has a steep slate roof with eaves that are lower than those of the adjacent No 9. The house has a late 20th-century modillion gutter cornice, a red brick stack on the right that adjoins the stack of No 9, and a small stuccoed stack also on the right. The building stands two storeys tall with an attic and cellar, displaying a five-window range and three rooflights. The windows are renewed 12-pane sashes, and there is a central doorway. The cellar has an opening with a 10-pane window set in a raised plinth beneath the left window.

Access to the house is via a flight of five stone steps that rise from the pavement to the doorway, which is flanked by renewed iron railings featuring late 20th-century details. The doorway is adorned with an architrave, a flat hood with a dentil cornice supported by wrought-iron brackets, and an 8-panel door with fielded panels.

The interior has been substantially altered since 1981. Originally, the house featured a vestibule with arches, one of which had a fanlight with tracery, while the other had raised and fielded panelled reveals. The southwest ground floor room was lined with raised and fielded panelling and had a fireplace with bolection moulding on the southeast wall. It also contained fielded-panelled six-panel doors and cornices. The 18th-century staircase had turned balusters, an ornately carved newel, a closed pulvinated string, and a panelled dado above the wall string.

By 2002, most of the original interior features had been removed. The left room retained an elliptical arched recess on the rear wall and a ceiling divided into two panels, but all details had been renewed. The staircase was mostly or entirely renewed, featuring a closed moulded string, turned balusters, and square newels.

Local climate

Ty Gelli Aur/Golden Grove House, with steps and railings 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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