20 King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. House, shop.

20 King Street

WRENN ID
vacant-tin-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1981
Type
House, shop
Address
20 King Street, Carmarthen
OS grid reference
SN 414 201
Coordinates
51.85741, -4.30413
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

20 King Street is a house and shops that is taller than the adjoining properties at Nos 19 and 21. It features painted stucco with a slate close-eaved roof and no chimneys. The building has three bays and three storeys, with a stone plaque in the top right corner that is eroded but appears to be dated 1806. It has early 19th-century fluted metal rainwater heads, possibly lead, along with a lead downpipe. The upper floors have tripartite plate-glass sash windows, with the outer top floor windows and the first floor left window featuring cast-iron flower balconies from the late 19th century on their sills.

On the ground floor, there are two late 19th-century shops, each with a plate glass shop window that includes outer panelled pilasters and scrolled brackets carved with grotesque faces, along with a fascia and cornice above. The shop windows are canted in, with shop doors, and there is a recessed centre half-glazed double door that leads to the stairs for the upper floors. Inside, there are two iron columns in the shop windows marked "The Old Foundry Co, Carmarthen." The staircase to the upper floors features stick balusters around a small open well, with scrolled tread ends and a ramped rail.

Local climate

20 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.

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