22 Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 March 1992. House.
22 Market Street
- WRENN ID
- broken-eave-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- 22 Market Street, Llanelli
- OS grid reference
- SN 508 004
- Coordinates
- 51.68261, -4.15909
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
22 Market Street is a large corner block of shops and offices built around 1915-1920 by William Griffiths of Llanelli, designed in the English Baroque style. The building stands three stories tall with an attic and features a domed corner. The ground floor is constructed with brown glazed brick piers, while the upper floors are made of red brick with extensive dressings in matt grey faience that imitate stone. The roof is slate with brick ridge stacks, and the plain rear elevations are made of rubble stone.
The Market Street elevation has eight bays, arranged as 1-6-1, while the Park Street side has seven bays, arranged as 2-4-1, with an ornate corner bay at the northwest angle topped by a dome. The ground floor showcases channelled glazed piers between shopfronts, with two narrower bays on Market Street that have doors leading to upper offices. The grey faience caps feature pendant labels between fascia panels, and there is a moulded cornice above.
On the upper floors, the flanking bays slightly project and are adorned with channelled faience angle piers, moulded caps with pendant labels, and a fine overall moulded cornice with a pulvinated frieze that breaks forward over the angle bays. The windows are small-paned sashes in the Queen Anne style, with the plainer centre bays featuring shouldered architraves and cornices, while the outer bays have pediments on brackets for the first floor and cornices on brackets for the second floor.
The angle bay is entirely clad in faience on the upper floors, featuring a canted two-storey bay. The main cornice wraps around this section, with broad front sashes that have a pediment on the first floor and a flat cornice on the second floor, along with narrow lights on the canted sides topped with plain cornices.
The attic floor includes large lunettes over the flanking bays, with faience arches, a cornice, coping, and side piers. The red brick walling has a row of eaves that break into brick dormers, which are segmental-headed with faience keystones and coping. The angle dome is composed of two stages: a lower canted section with one window and two faience piers, and an octagonal drum featuring scrolled faience angle buttresses, small square windows, and a leaded bell-cast dome topped with a wooden spike finial.
Local climate
22 Market Street sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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