Sunday School to Capel Heol Awst is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. School.
Sunday School to Capel Heol Awst
- WRENN ID
- grey-gutter-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1981
- Type
- School
- Address
- Sunday School to Capel Heol Awst, Carmarthen
- OS grid reference
- SN 409 200
- Coordinates
- 51.85631, -4.31136
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Sunday School on Capel Heol Awst is a building constructed in unpainted roughcast with a slate hipped roof and a moulded eaves cornice. It stands two storeys tall, featuring a four-bay facade facing Lammas Street and a five-bay facade towards the courtyard. The windows are leaded and set in moulded surrounds, with cambered heads on the ground floor and arched tops above. The ground floor windows are divided by broad banded piers, which are complemented by a string course and plinth below, and a dentilled cornice above that is broken forward over the piers. The first floor has arched lights arranged in an arcade supported by broad pilasters with moulded caps and arches, with blank roundels in the spandrels. The eaves cornice is moulded and coved, and the building features cast iron rainwater goods.
The Lammas Street facade includes a recessed entrance bay on the far left, styled to match the rest of the building. This entrance features a tall arched opening with paired arched panelled doors beneath a crescent-shaped fanlight. Small roundels in the spandrels display raised numerals 18 to the left and 88 to the right. Above the entrance is an arched window and an eaves cornice similar to that on the main front. A plaque on the facade notes that John Ross, a printer and publisher who lived from 1727 to 1807, resided in a house on this site.
Inside, there is a three-sided gallery with curved angles supported by nine square panelled cast iron pillars. Decorative ironwork runs along the top of horizontal panels, separated by fluted pilasters. The gallery projects on brackets and features six-panelled timber doors. The gallery stair has turned balusters, and the arrangement is asymmetrical with raked seating at the rear and right over the arcade, which is supported by square fluted columns with scrolled pediments. The left side of the gallery has matching arcading to the exterior wall. The ceiling is adorned with a wide stucco cornice and a plain central rose.
Local climate
Sunday School to Capel Heol Awst 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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