Min-yr-Afon, including railings and gate is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. House.

Min-yr-Afon, including railings and gate

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1981
Type
House
Address
Min-yr-Afon, including railings and gate, 8 the Parade, Carmarthen, SA31 1LY
OS grid reference
SN 416 201
Coordinates
51.8576, -4.30028
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Min-yr-Afon is a paired house built in the 19th century, featuring painted stucco and a slate roof with decorative fretwork eaves board and bargeboards. The house has yellow brick end stacks, with the right stack shared. It is three storeys high and has a two-window range with plate-glass sashes. The upper floor includes a stepped triplet of round-headed sashes on the right, with the centre sash being taller and wider, and a narrower pair of round-headed sashes on the left, all under a continuous hoodmould.

On the right side, the first and ground floors have a two-storey canted three-light bay window with a moulded cornice. To the left on the first floor, there is a pair of narrow flat-headed sashes, while on the ground floor, there is a round-headed doorway located centre-left and a wider round-headed through-passage to the left. Access to the house is via four steps leading up to a five-panelled door with a plain fanlight. The hoodmoulds extend as strings on each floor, but do not surround the bay window.

The first floor features balconies with fine later 19th-century cast-iron balustrades that extend on either side of the bay window. The front garden is enclosed by dwarf stone walls with ashlar coping, and features cast-iron railings designed in an intersected oval pattern by Thomas Jones of Priory Foundry, similar to those found before Nos 8 to 9 The Esplanade and Union Street Chapel. The gate incorporates the same motif in two tiers.

Local climate

Min-yr-Afon, including 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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