American Villas is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 October 1972. House.
American Villas
- WRENN ID
- frozen-brick-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- American Villas, 39 Ammanford Road, Llandybie Village, Ammanford, Llandybie
- OS grid reference
- SN 619 152
- Coordinates
- 51.8189, -4.00467
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
American Villas is a Grade II listed 'balloon-frame' timber house, slightly different in design from its neighbor, No. 41. The house has two storeys and features a gable facing east towards the street, with two-bay return elevations to the north and south. At the rear, there is a single storey unit that projects to the north side. A large veranda wraps around the east and north sides of the house, incorporating a decorative gable at the corner that highlights the door position. The walls are clap-boarded, and the roofs are slate with tile ridges, complemented by brick chimneys. The gutters are formed with wooden troughs above the roof boarding. The veranda is supported by turned timber posts and curved brackets, while the house features timber bargeboards. In some areas, the structure is supported on dwarf brick piers. The gable has paired sash windows, and to the right of the gable is a semi-glazed door with margin panes, along with a decorative fan design in both the main and verandah gables. The return elevation has single sash windows.
Local climate
American Villas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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