The Angel Vaults is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 December 1992. Inn. 1 related planning application.
The Angel Vaults
- WRENN ID
- inner-bonework-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1992
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Angel Vaults, 10 Nott Square, Carmarthen, SA31 1PG
- OS grid reference
- SN 412 199
- Coordinates
- 51.85578, -4.30641
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Angel Vaults is a 3-storey inn with a 2-bay painted roughcast front, featuring a plinth and a hipped slate roof, and a chamfered corner on the right. The building has recessed horned sash windows from around 1900, with small-paned upper sashes. The projecting bar-frontage, also from around 1900, has splayed ends and a curved leaded roof over a 1-3-1 bay arrangement, with small-pane glazing in the top lights above frosted bar windows and central double panelled doors. The overlight is framed by brackets and a cornice.
On the right side, there is a raised chimney breast on the first floor and a 20th-century brick stack at the eaves. There is a door and window on the ground floor right, and a window on the first floor right. The left side has a rebate on the right, indicating the front of the original building. At the centre of the first floor, there is a 15th-century window that is square-headed with a moulded sandstone frame and a cusped and sharply-pointed ogee arch, featuring weathered heraldic shields in the spandrels; it was once part-glazed. The top stone is eroded and shows traces of a hoodmould. To the left, there is a pair of casement windows and a sash window on the second floor left. There is a flat-roofed 20th-century addition on the ground floor, which replaced the urinals noted on a map from around 1900, demolished in the early 1980s.
The ground floor has been altered, including a small late 19th-century stair in the southwest corner.
Local climate
The Angel Vaults 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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