3 Quay Street is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 August 1954. Terraced house. 1 related planning application.
3 Quay Street
- WRENN ID
- drifting-plinth-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1954
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 3 Quay Street, Carmarthen, SA31 3JT
- OS grid reference
- SN 412 199
- Coordinates
- 51.85573, -4.30724
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
3 Quay Street is a terraced house featuring a painted stucco ground floor, a rubble stone plinth, and a painted roughcast upper floor. The roof is slate with deep eaves, heavy moulded cornice with modillions, and a large red brick stack on the right. The building has a basement, two storeys, and an attic, with a five-window range reflecting early 18th century design, though some details have been altered.
There are two small sash dormers, each with sloping slate roofs and slate cheeks. The windows on both floors are horned 4-pane sashes, and there is a central doorway. The basement has three square 6-pane windows, one of which is blocked, all with timber lintels. Access is via three renewed grey stone steps leading to a renewed 6-panel door with plain reveals, an overlight featuring rectilinear tracery, and a boarded hood supported by carved and scrolled trusses similar to those at No. 2.
The upper floor displays strips on either side of the windows that imitate timbering, and the moulded brick band is also covered in cement. The rear wall is roughcast and features a lean-to on the ground floor to the left, along with a near-detached rubble stone rear wing.
Inside, there is a 19th century half-glazed inner door, one earlier 19th century 6-panel door, and two 4-panel doors. The left ground floor room has a two-panel ceiling, while the right room has a four-panel ceiling, both adorned with mouldings around the panels and plastered beams. The wide dogleg staircase, characteristic of the 18th century, features a closed pulvinated string, moulded rail, turned balusters, and square newels, similar to the staircase in No. 2.
Local climate
3 Quay Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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