The Strand is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Residential structure.
The Strand
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-postern-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 September 1986
- Type
- Residential structure
- Address
- The Strand, Laugharne, Laugharne Township
- OS grid reference
- SN 301 106
- Coordinates
- 51.76845, -4.46301
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Strand is a building with a three-window drydash front, currently designed in a double-pile plan but with earlier origins. It features slate roofs and rubble chimney stacks. The original small-pane sash glazing has been replaced with versions that include horns. There is a later addition of a central half-glazed porch and a split six-panel door. The rubble twin gabled end walls have modern sash and casement windows that are irregularly spaced. A vertical joint between the front and rear ranges is clearly visible, indicating that they were built separately. The rear range also has irregularly spaced windows and was formerly a granary warehouse, while the cross range at the right rear was previously a malthouse associated with the David family brewery.
Inside, the building retains what is likely an early 19th-century reused staircase that was originally intended for a larger stairwell. This staircase features a broad moulded handrail and turned balusters of various types. There is one panelled upper room and a recess with a cockleshell emblem on the ground floor. The rear range still maintains its warehouse appearance.
Local climate
The Strand sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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