The Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 1981. Boundary marker. 1 related planning application.

The Post Office

WRENN ID
heavy-vestry-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 February 1981
Type
Boundary marker
Address
The Post Office, 3 Market Square, Llandovery, SA20 0AD
OS grid reference
SN 767 344
Coordinates
51.99434, -3.79639
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Post Office is a mid-19th century commercial building designed in the late Georgian style. It features four bays and three storeys, topped with a slate gabled roof and a stuccoed chimney on the right. The building has deep bracketed eaves and a lined painted stucco facade, which includes a raised plinth and long and short quoins on both sides.

The upper floor windows and the left ground floor window are 12-pane hornless sashes with moulded surrounds and keystones, with the windows on the second floor being smaller. The central shop window, added in the mid-20th century, is flanked on the left by a six-panel house door and on the right by a similar door for the post office, both featuring large square overlights with marginal glazing. The doors and the central window have plain stucco surrounds, and the window and overlights have mid-20th century metal glazing. A bracket lamp is present, which does not appear in a photograph from around 1895.

The left and right returns of the building are also stuccoed. The ground floor interior is completely covered over, but there is an inner porch with earlier 20th-century glazing and one iron column in front of the window.

Local climate

The Post Office sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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