Dylan Thomas's tool-shed Study is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 July 1968. Study.

Dylan Thomas's tool-shed Study

WRENN ID
knotted-roof-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 July 1968
Type
Study
Address
Dylan Thomas's tool-shed Study, Laugharne Township
OS grid reference
SN 305 109
Coordinates
51.77185, -4.4571
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Boathouse and Dylan Thomas's Tool-shed Study is a 2-storey building located above and at right angles to the foreshore, with a revetment wall at the northwest end, accessible by a modern staircase. The front features three windows on the upper floor and two on the lower, all rendered, with a plinth, a slate roof, and brick chimney stacks at either end. The small-pane sash windows with margins flank a fixed paired light window above a boarded door. The rear of the building has casement windows and includes a 3-storey section with an outside staircase and a verandah.

Adjacent to the main structure is a single-storey shed with a pitched roof, vertically boarded, featuring casement windows and double doors on the west end. The interior has been preserved as Dylan Thomas left it; he referred to it as his "water and tree room on the cliff." The building was originally constructed as a garage for Laugharne's first car.

Local climate

Dylan Thomas's tool-shed Study 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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