Ty Carwyn, including forecourt railings is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. Town house, office. 3 related planning applications.
Ty Carwyn, including forecourt railings
- WRENN ID
- tilted-groin-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1981
- Type
- Town house, office
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Former town house, now offices, painted stucco with slate hipped roof. Three storey, 3-window range with full-height projecting bowed centre. Timber modillion cornice renewed in late C20. Symmetrical front with 4-pane horned sashes to first floor left and both outer windows of second floor. Second floor centre and first floor right windows are blank, first floor centre has Palladian tripartite sash with 4-12-4-pane glazing and blind arch over centre light. All windows renewed in later C20, the middle sashes curved. Same window to ground floor centre. Tall arched blank recess to right answering left side similar arch with C20 4-panel door, with 3 stone steps, and fanlight with radiating bars. Cast iron rainwater goods. Right end has 2 large rendered stacks flanking tall, narrow, small-paned timber sash stair-light, arched-headed with interlacing glazing bars to head, and stone sill. Projecting rendered masonry block to full height to left, projecting out as pier on right side of main front, possibly a relic of a demolished building. To left of stair window is stepped buttress, also roughcast rendered. Stone coped plinth, stepped down towards rear. Rendered rear wall with double 4-pane sash to first floor centre with continuous stone sill. Two 4-pane timber sashes, more widely spaced, to upper storey. Dwarf front wall in stucco with stone coping carrying cast iron rail similar to those at Penllwyn Park. Uprights with rounded spearhead finials supporting 2 continuous horizontal bars. Alternating low, similar vertical bars with spearheads between horizontals. Elaborate Gothic scrollwork flanking each head, and also flanking low intermediate spearheads.
Staircase with stick balusters. Treads concealed. Six-panelled doors to first floor, remainder replaced in later C20. Ground floor hallway has decorative stucco arches with scrolled corbels to arch-springs.
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