8 Hall Street is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
8 Hall Street
- WRENN ID
- secret-timber-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8 Hall Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1PH
- OS grid reference
- SN 412 200
- Coordinates
- 51.8561, -4.30691
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a 2-storey, 2-bay house located at 8 Hall Street, built in the 19th century. The building is stuccoed and features a slate close-eaved roof with crested ridge tiles and a red and black decorated brick stack on the left. It has a plinth, a channelled ground floor, a moulded cornice above, and a pilaster on the first floor to the left.
On the first floor, there are two plate-glass sash windows set in chamfered and stopped openings. The ground floor has a triple sash window to the left and a doorway to the right, which includes an overlight and two steps leading up to a 6-panelled door with moulded panels. The left end wall is windowless.
There is also a memorial plaque to Brinley Richards, which states: "The Committee of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Carmarthen, 1911 has placed this tablet here in memorial to Brinley Richards Musician and Composer who was born on November 13th 1817 in a house once standing in this street then known as Market Street. He died in London May 1st 1885."
Local climate
8 Hall 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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