24 Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1992. Mixed-use.
24 Market Street
- WRENN ID
- last-merlon-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1992
- Type
- Mixed-use
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
24 Market Street is a large corner block of shops and offices built around 1915-1920 by William Griffiths of Llanelli, designed in the English Baroque style. The building has three storeys and an attic, featuring a domed corner. The ground floor is constructed with brown glazed brick piers, while the upper floors are made of red brick with extensive dressings in matt grey faience that mimic stone. The roof is slate with brick ridge stacks, and the plain rear elevations are made of rubble stone.
The Market Street elevation has eight bays, arranged in a 1-6-1 pattern, while the Park Street side has seven bays, divided into 2-4-1, with an ornate corner bay at the northwest angle topped by a dome. The ground floor showcases channelled glazed piers between the shopfronts, with two narrower bays on Market Street that contain doors leading to the upper offices. Grey faience caps with pendant labels are positioned between the fascia panels, topped by a moulded cornice.
On the upper floors, there are slightly projected flanking bays featuring channelled faience angle piers, moulded caps with pendant labels, and a fine overall moulded cornice with a pulvinated frieze that breaks forward over the angle bays. The windows are small-paned sashes in the Queen Anne style, vertically linked. The central bays have shouldered architraves and cornices, while the outer bays feature pediments on brackets for the first floor and cornices on brackets for the second floor. The angle bay is entirely clad in faience on the upper floors, showcasing a canted two-storey bay with a main cornice that wraps around, broad front sashes with a pediment on the first floor, a flat cornice on the second floor, and narrow lights on the canted sides topped with plain cornices.
The attic floor includes large lunettes over the flanking bays, with faience arches, a cornice, coping, and side piers. The red brick walling has a row of eaves that break for brick dormers, which are segmental-headed with faience keystones and coping. The angle dome consists of two stages: a lower canted section with one window and two faience piers, followed by an octagonal drum adorned with scrolled faience angle buttresses, small square windows, and a leaded bell-cast dome topped with a wooden spike finial.
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