Entrance Building to the former Carmarthen Workhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. Workhouse.

Entrance Building to the former Carmarthen Workhouse

WRENN ID
sacred-pewter-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1981
Type
Workhouse
OS grid reference
SN 411 205
Coordinates
51.86115, -4.30881
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The entrance building to the former Carmarthen Workhouse is a two-storey structure with a southwest elevation featuring three bays. The building is finished in stucco and has a slate hipped roof with a central wall-face stack. It has a plinth and a central vehicular entrance on the ground floor, which is framed by a semi-elliptical ashlar arch with impost blocks. A similar arch is found on the rear southwest elevation. The front elevation is otherwise blank, with broad raised piers on each side, two narrow bands between the floors, and a first-floor raised external chimney breast supported by plain corbels below the lower band. The bands project forward around both the piers and the chimney breast. The rear southwest elevation facing the courtyard features three sash windows on the first floor, with a similar sash window on each side of the entrance arch. The side walls are blank, adorned with a double band and panels above.

Local climate

Entrance Building to the former Carmarthen Workhouse 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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