Awelaur, formerly the Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 August 1999. Parsonage.

Awelaur, formerly the Vicarage

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 August 1999
Type
Parsonage
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Awelaur, formerly the Vicarage, is a substantial two-storey and attic parsonage built in the Tudor style. The house is constructed of local grey limestone with a pecked finish, laid in snecked courses, and features oolitic limestone dressings. The roof is slate, with decoratively scalloped red ridge tiles and prominent red brick chimneys. The west cross-wing and east service wing have hipped roofs with neatly butted slates at the hips. Architectural details include mullion and transom windows, weathered string courses, coped gables with moulded and double-weathered skewstones and finials.

The main range runs north-south, with a twin gable facing north. To the west is a double-roofed cross-wing which incorporates a hidden roof valley, and a small advancing unit extends to the east, rising through the eaves to form a bold, full-height dormer with a coped gable. A low service wing is located to the east, also with a hipped roof. A raised garden terrace is situated on the north side.

The south elevation has three bays, showing the gable-end of the main range, which includes an entrance porch as a left-side extension, and the flank of the cross-wing. A prominent coped gable features a stone finial. The entrance has pine doors under a pointed arch with an unstopped label mould; a bronze bell-pull remains. Mullion and transom windows are present, with the first-floor window of the gable having a label mould with everted ends. The wing features mullion and transom windows above and below, and a small two-light window above the porch. Alterations to the cross-wing's south elevation include the removal of a collar from the dormer gable and a chimney from the angle with the main range. A dated rainwater head with decorative crenellations is also present.

The west elevation, overlooking the garden, has two mullion and transom windows to the ground storey of the cross-wing; the right-hand window is a canted bay, and there are no windows to the first storey. The north elevation displays twin coped gables of equal height, a narrow valley with an opening for the rainwater head, and eaves that are higher on the right side than the left. Mullion or single-light windows are found here, with first-floor windows having transoms. The north flank of the cross-wing is set back, with a through-eaves dormer featuring a mullion and transom window. The east elevation is a four-window range with mullion and transom windows; the narrow advancing section, located left of centre, is three-storeyed and incorporates a full dormer.

Inside, the entrance hall has encaustic tile paving in a coloured pattern, while timber strip flooring is found elsewhere. Pine joinery is common, including doors, stairs, and mantlepieces. Folding shutters are fitted to the ground storey of the main rooms. Fireplace fronts are made of polished white limestone, with pointed arches on the ground storey and trabeated forms elsewhere, and iron firegrates are present throughout.

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