The Market Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 August 2001. Market hall. 4 related planning applications.
The Market Hall
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 August 2001
- Type
- Market hall
- Address
- The Market Hall, Llanboidy, Whitland, SA34 0EJ
- OS grid reference
- SN 217 231
- Coordinates
- 51.87854, -4.59151
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Market Hall is a single-storey structure built from coursed squared grey rubble stone, featuring ornamental bands in black and red brick, and topped with a pale slate roof. It has shaped heavy bargeboards, an ornate timber and slate louvred lantern, and terracotta ridge tiles. The hall consists of seven bays with gable ends that have three windows each. The facade includes arched openings with cut sandstone voussoirs beneath a pointed outer arch made of black brick, which is linked at the impost level by a course of red bricks situated between courses of black brick. The stone sills of the windows are connected by a black brick course, and the plinth features a black brick chamfered top course.
The windows are of the Florentine type, consisting of two arched lights with a roundel above, while the doors have a crescent overlight with a roundel. The current doors are 20th-century double doors with a fixed segmental-headed double panel above; the original doors were higher and included panels where the fixed piece is now. The end walls also have three similar windows and large metal-traceried roundels in the gables. The ridge lantern has louvred sides and a sharply pyramidal slated roof, which is bell-cast at the eaves and topped with a metal fox weathervane. At the rear, there is a lean-to with cambered-headed windows and stone voussoirs, along with an attached outbuilding at the northwest angle.
Near the center of the facade is a granite water trough, donated in 1890 to commemorate the completion of the village water supply in accordance with the last wish of W.R.H. Powell Esq. This trough features a half-oval bowl on a plinth, with a pointed top adorned with a crown, wheatsheaf, and sickle, along with the date 1890 and the motto 'Duw a digon'.
Inside, the hall space contains a 20th-century stage at the south end. The roof features complex timber and iron trusses, each with timber principals and collars, and an iron-rod main tie from which descend four vertical iron rods and four raking wooden struts arranged in a W pattern. The boarded roof has six purlins, and the boards along the eaves are pierced with quatrefoil vents. On the rear wall, there are pivoted pitch-pine screens that can swing out to divide market stalls, featuring quatrefoil panels and ball-and-spike finials. The rear lean-to room also has a boarded roof.
Local climate
The Market Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 4 applications
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