34 King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. House, shop.
34 King Street
- WRENN ID
- steep-doorway-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1981
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 34 King Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1BS
- OS grid reference
- SN 414 202
- Coordinates
- 51.8578, -4.30397
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
34 King Street is a house and shop dating from the 18th century. The building features painted roughcast walls and an imitation slate close-eaved roof without a chimney. It has two storeys and consists of two bays. The structure includes a plinth, two 2-pane horned sash windows on the first floor, and a large 20th-century single-pane fixed shop window with a 20th-century casing. To the right, there is a recessed doorway with two doors: one leading into an optician's shop and the other straight ahead into No 34a, which serves as upper storey offices. The doorway is aligned to the right of the window above.
Inside, there is a staircase with turned balusters and a thick rail in the early to mid-18th century style. The bottom flight was replaced in the 20th century, while the next flight features a square newel and a closed pulvinated string. The following flight is enclosed.
In the cellar, accessed by six steps, there is a wall of stone rubble on the right side of the building, which forms the party wall with No 33 and is approximately 2.80 metres thick. This wall likely belongs to the medieval town wall. The two cellars are connected and can only be accessed from No 34. Additionally, there is a fireplace on the back wall of the cellar in No 34 and one heavy beam.
Local climate
34 King Street 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings