Former Monastery / Clergy House at the Catholic Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 February 2024. A C17 Monastery, clergy house.
Former Monastery / Clergy House at the Catholic Church of St Mary
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 February 2024
- Type
- Monastery, clergy house
- Address
- Former Monastery / Clergy House at the Catholic Church of St Mary, Carmarthen
- OS grid reference
- SN 403 202
- Coordinates
- 51.85775, -4.31943
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former monastery and clergy house at the Catholic Church of St Mary is constructed from coursed dressed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and a plinth. It features a slate roof with overhanging eaves, decorative ridge tiles, and ridge stacks. The building has a wide, three-storey main block facing southeast with four bays. This block includes tripartite windows, 24-pane transom gabled dormers with flat heads, and 24-pane casement windows with relieving arches on the ground and first floors.
The entrance is located on the southwest side, featuring a two-bay design with a pointed door to the left, a 16-pane window above, and a square 12-pane window on the second floor. To the right, there are similar windows on the ground and first floors, along with a pointed trefoil in the gable.
At the rear left, there is a 2½ storey wing that connects to the church, featuring a cat-slide roof at the ground floor. This wing has a wide gabled 18-light dormer and a similar window below with leaded lights, along with a ground floor window to the left. The building is attached to a buttressed stone extension from the church.
The northwest elevation includes various openings, all with yellow brick dressings, and a rear wing with a ground floor window. The main block has two windows on the ground floor and four on the first floor, with the center windows being smaller. There is a single window on the second floor with a fire escape stair attached. The northeast elevation has two 16-pane windows on the second floor, along with a single-storey extension featuring a gable stack and window, a 24-pane window to the southeast, and an additional lean-to.
The building has an axial plan with a corridor running across the rear of the main block, repeated on each floor. There is a straight flight stair at the northeast end, which is a later addition. Rooms are located to the southeast of the corridor, with a chapel situated on the first floor of the rear wing.
Local climate
Former Monastery / Clergy House at the Catholic Church of St Mary 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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