Jubilee Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 February 1981. Commercial premises. 1 related planning application.

Jubilee Stores

WRENN ID
tired-slate-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 February 1981
Type
Commercial premises
Address
Jubilee Stores, 31 High Street, Llandovery, SA20 0DD
OS grid reference
SN 769 343
Coordinates
51.99397, -3.79344
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Jubilee Stores is a commercial building dated 1897. It is constructed of painted stucco with deep-eaved slate roofs supported by long timber brackets, and features crested ridge tiles. The building has an L-shaped footprint, with a hipped roof over the front range. The structure incorporates red and black brick chimneys, one on the roof hip and one on the southern end of the rear range. It rises two and a half storeys, with a broad two-bay front. The upper floors feature rusticated quoins and the ground floor angles are defined by channelled piers. A large, central gable breaks the eaves, featuring bargeboards on arch-braces sprung from corbels. This gable contains a pair of horned plate-glass sash windows within keyed surrounds. The first floor has two large timber canted oriels with dentil and modillion cornices, which are continued across the centre to display the inscription 'Jubilee Stores 1897' in bold relief capital letters, topped with a relief crown. The full-width shopfront has a modillion cornice and fascia above a double shop window canted into a deeply recessed half-glazed door. The windows are plate glass with small brackets in the corners and long, narrow top-lights. The shopfront is further defined by outer pilasters with curved-topped consoles framing the fascia and cornice.

The return front to Bridge Street is similarly elaborate, with two eaves-breaking dormers featuring bargeboards, collars, curved struts, and spike finials, each situated over a single sash framed to resemble a pair. This front also mirrors the first floor with a pair of oriels, a very small framed sash with a keystone between them, and a ground floor with a long dentil cornice above the window, door, and window to the left, and a shop window to the right. The left-hand door is six-panelled with an overlight; the right-hand shop window has a mid transom and three panes below a single large pane, and a narrow top light. Both the door and shop window are framed by pilasters with console brackets. The left-hand gable of the return front exhibits deep verges, a finial, and a single attic sash to the right, framed with a keystone.

Inside, a large ground floor shop features a central cast iron column.

Local climate

Jubilee Stores sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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