The Boat House is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 July 1968. House.
The Boat House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-column-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Boat House, Laugharne Township
- OS grid reference
- SN 306 110
- Coordinates
- 51.77222, -4.45617
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Boathouse and Dylan Thomas' Tool-shed Study is an early 19th-century building, known to have existed by 1834, with alterations made in 1889. It is a two-storey structure featuring a rendered front with a plinth, a slate roof, and brick end chimney stacks. The facade has a three-window arrangement with small-pane sash windows that have margins, flanking a fixed paired light window above a boarded door. At the rear, there are casement windows and an outside staircase leading to a verandah.
Adjacent to the main building is a single-storey shed with a pitched roof, vertically boarded walls, casement windows, and double doors on the west end. The interior of the shed has been preserved as Dylan Thomas maintained it, referring to it as his "water and tree room on the cliff." The Boathouse was originally constructed as a garage for Laugharne's first car.
Local climate
The Boat House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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