The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. House.
The Limes
- WRENN ID
- winter-portal-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Limes, Laugharne Township
- OS grid reference
- SN 301 110
- Coordinates
- 51.77266, -4.46293
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Limes is a late 18th century Georgian building, believed to have been constructed around 1790. It is a three-storey structure with a basement and features a two-window rendered front. The building is often referred to as "Big House" and was divided into separate units around 1900. It has a slate roof with dentiled eaves and brick chimney stacks, with a later addition to the right and a rubble chimney breast on the left end wall. The façade includes three-light horned sash windows, with a four-storey splayed bay to the left. The central entrance is raised and accessed by parallel rubble steps, featuring a fine open pedimented doorcase with oval paterae supporting a bracketed entablature. The entrance has a six-panel door and a five-panel petal fanlight. A basement window remains visible to the left, while others are hidden by a raised pavement.
At the rear, there is a three-storey, two-window rubble cross range. This section has various irregularly spaced sash, pivot, and casement windows, with brick voussoirs to the left. The porch that led to the panelled door has been removed, and the door is now accessed from a small terrace.
There are outbuildings attached at the rear, and a rubble wall lines the drive to the north. Inside, the property retains a classically detailed fireplace, along with egg and dart and acanthus cornices, and panelled doors.
Local climate
The Limes 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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