30 King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 November 2003. Commercial property.
30 King Street
- WRENN ID
- sheer-lintel-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 November 2003
- Type
- Commercial property
- Address
- 30 King Street, Carmarthen, SA31 1BS
- OS grid reference
- SN 414 202
- Coordinates
- 51.85801, -4.30361
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
30 King Street is a house that has been converted into a commercial property. The building features unpainted stucco on the upper floors and a slate hipped roof with a moulded eaves cornice. It stands three storeys tall with a cellar and has two bays. The upper floors are characterized by channelled corner piers and paired console brackets located beneath the eaves. There is a sill band on the second floor and a moulded cornice below the sills on the first floor. The windows are plate glass sash types set in moulded surrounds, with the second-floor windows being shorter.
The ground floor has been altered in the 20th century, with the shop set back to create an inset pavement. It features two openings to the street and one at the eastern end. The 20th-century shopfront is positioned far back, but remnants of the original ground floor remain, including channelled piers with moulded capitals on either side, located below the heads of the openings. The left opening is narrow and was a former door, while the right opening is broader, featuring a wide fascia and moulded cornice.
On the left end wall, above No. 31, there is a three-pane sash window on the second floor to the right. The right end has aligned windows roughly in the middle: a four-paned horned sash window on the second floor, and the lower two windows are in a common vertical recess, consisting of a 12-pane hornless sash window on the first floor and a modern fixed four-pane window on the ground floor. There is an opening leading to the recessed pavement on the left side. Additionally, there is a two-storey rear lean-to added in the 20th century.
Inside, the ground floor features two depressed arches with fluted pilasters that divide the shop into three bays from front to back. A late 20th-century staircase leads from the ground to the first floor. The first floor has an arched hall entrance and six-panel doors with fielded panels for the front and rear rooms. An earlier 19th-century staircase leads from the first to the second floor and includes thin column newels, stick balusters, and plain round ends on the handrails. The roof structure consists of four tie-beam oak pegged trusses with centre posts and angled struts, which are said to have been reused from a slaughterhouse. There are wooden steps leading down to the cellar, which has rubble stone walls, some slate flagstones, and remains of an iron range, along with oak beams.
Local climate
30 King 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
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