Former Carmarthenshire Infirmary is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. House.
Former Carmarthenshire Infirmary
- WRENN ID
- standing-steel-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Carmarthenshire Infirmary, Carmarthen
- OS grid reference
- SN 416 202
- Coordinates
- 51.85874, -4.30062
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Carmarthenshire Infirmary is a two-storey hospital building designed in the Italianate style, featuring a stucco exterior, a hipped slate roof, and four rendered chimneys. The front facade has seven windows arranged in a 2-3-2 bay configuration, topped with a moulded eaves cornice. Banding pilasters separate the sections, and instead of capitals, there are paired brackets. The windows are 12-pane hornless sashes set in moulded architraves, although the broad central window has been altered; it was originally a larger sash with an architrave and flat cornice but is now a 5-light sash with a configuration of 4-8-8-8-4 panes and no architrave. A broad sill band bears the inscription "Carmarthenshire Infirmary Supported by Voluntary Contributions."
The central doorway is prominently featured with a pedimented surround, supported by Doric pilasters, and includes a frieze and dentilled pediment, which has the inscription "Founded 1847." The doors are deeply recessed. Above the windows on either side, the building has the inscription "Built 1858." The ends of the building have three first-floor windows, with the center one being blind, and there is a recessed bay that connects to a similarly sized parallel rear range, which has a hipped slate roof, three-window ends, and a seven-window rear. The rear has undergone significant alterations due to additions that were demolished in 2001-2002.
In 1981, the front block had a contemporary staircase featuring a continuous handrail and stick balusters, along with a large tripartite sash stair window and some panelled doors, but was otherwise mostly modernised. The building was inaccessible at the time of the resurvey.
Local climate
Former Carmarthenshire Infirmary sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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