Garage to Island House is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 September 1986. Garage.

Garage to Island House

WRENN ID
silent-cellar-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 September 1986
Type
Garage
Address
Garage to Island House, Laugharne Township
OS grid reference
SN 301 107
Coordinates
51.76968, -4.46326
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is a garage that was originally part of Island House. It features a high wall that runs southwest towards the grist, with a front gable-ended cross range extending towards the street. The top courses of the wall are bonded, and it has a slate coping and a brick chimney stack. The wall then turns southeast and runs along the northeast side of the grist, where there is a modern opening leading to a modern house that is not of special interest. The wall curves back towards the castle, stepping down in front of the modern house and rising again at the end of the garden of Island House. This section of the wall has a plaque that reads, "This wall was rebuilt by Maryabra Hughes Skyrme AD 1837."

At the northeast corner, the base of a cylindrical tower was converted in the early 19th century into a gazebo, which is now in poor condition. The wall then turns northwest along the River Coran to a two-storey rubble structure with a corrugated roof that adjoins the ornamental gothic gate tower of Island House. This structure is now a garage but is said to have formerly contained living accommodation. It retains a pendant at the gable end, with freestone quoins and brick surrounds to the windows on the northeast side.

Local climate

Garage to Island House 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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