The Limes, including front garden wall, railings and gate is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 November 2003. Residential building.
The Limes, including front garden wall, railings and gate
- WRENN ID
- peeling-barrel-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 November 2003
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- The Limes, including front garden wall, railings and gate, 5 the Esplanade, Carmarthen, SA31 1NQ
- OS grid reference
- SN 418 203
- Coordinates
- 51.85899, -4.29831
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Limes is an end terrace house dating from the 19th century. It features painted stucco with a low-pitched slate roof and a red brick chimney stack on the left side. The house has deep eaves supported by paired deep brackets that are interrupted by the window heads. Each house consists of two bays and is two storeys high. The first floor includes a drip course that steps over the windows, a sill band, a tripartite 2-2-2-pane sash window on the left, and a 2-pane hornless sash window on the right.
On the ground floor, there is a canted bay window on the left with 2-2-2-pane horned sashes, flanked by thin raised piers with console brackets. This bay window has a banded frieze and a deep cornice that breaks forward over the piers. To the right, the doorcase features arched panels on the piers, console brackets, and a cornice above. The entrance has a four-panel door with a rectangular overlight and is accessed by a steep flight of steps leading down to the pavement.
The low front garden wall is made of dressed stone and topped with cast iron coping. It is complemented by cast iron railings featuring interlocking ovals and finials. The gate posts are of cast iron baluster type with ball finials, and the gate mirrors the design of the railings but has a pattern break at the lock rail. There are matching iron railings that step up to the right of the path leading to the front door. The side elevation facing Penuel Street is windowless, with deep gable verges.
Local climate
The Limes, including front garden wall, railings and gate 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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