54 King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 June 2010. House, shop. 1 related planning application.

54 King Street

WRENN ID
idle-tower-ebony
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 June 2010
Type
House, shop
Address
54 King Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1BD
OS grid reference
SN 413 200
Coordinates
51.85682, -4.30552
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a three-storey and attic house and shop, dating from the late 19th century. It has two bays and is faced with smooth rendering. The windows are plate glass sash windows with raised Gothic hood moulds. The roof is slate and gabled, with a gabled two-light dormer window. A moulded bracket eaves cornice runs along the top.

On the ground floor, there are three Gothic arches linked by a string course above the central window. The arches frame doorways in the outer bays; the right-hand bay was originally a window, and the arch over the left-hand doorway displays the words "Established 1840.” The first floor has single sash windows, and to the left is a canted oriel bay window with enriched capitals and mullions. A decorative carved stone corbel with a plain shaft and carved capital projects through the ground floor string course at the base of the oriel. The second floor features a window to the left and paired windows to the right, with a continuous string course above.

The ground floor is now an open-plan shop unit accessible via the right-hand door. A late 19th-century staircase rises from the left-hand door, extending the full height of the building, and the upper floors have been converted into three separate flats.

Local climate

54 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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