Carmarthen House is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. Commercial premises.
Carmarthen House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-attic-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1981
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Carmarthen House, Dark Gate, SA31 1PT
- OS grid reference
- SN 411 200
- Coordinates
- 51.85633, -4.30859
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Carmarthen House is an end terrace commercial property with a painted stucco exterior, a close-eaved slate roof, and a left end stack, while the right stack has been removed since 1981. The building stands three storeys high and has four bays. It originally featured two hipped sash dormers and a moulded eaves cornice, both of which have been removed since 1981. The windows are arranged in pairs on each side, with the former central windows lost. The upper floors have 4-pane sashes, while the top floor windows are square and set well below the eaves. There is a thin sill band at the second floor. The ground floor, which used to have two shopfronts—one from the late 19th century to early 20th century on the left and a 20th-century one on the right—has now been combined into a single late 20th-century shopfront. The end walls are windowless and stuccoed.
At the rear, there is a lower wing that is three storeys tall with an attic and an eaves roof, consisting of two bays set to the centre right. It has a 4-pane attic sash in the centre under the eaves, two 12-pane horned sashes on the second floor, and one on the first floor to the right. There is a blocked low door to the ground floor right and a narrow louvred window further to the right. The rear right side of the main building is constructed of rubble stone and features altered windows on each upper floor, with brickwork between and above the windows.
The interior, as described in 1981, has likely been lost except for possibly the attic. The 1981 description noted fielded 6-panel doors with L-hinges, an 18th-century staircase in the early to mid-18th century London style with turned balusters, a moulded rail, and a continuous pulvinated string from the first floor to the attic, along with dado panelling above the wall string. In the east second floor room, there was a mid-18th-century fireplace with an eared architrave. The first floor west room featured an 18th-century cornice with modillions and dentils, a late 19th-century fireplace with an eared 18th-century overmantel, and 18th-century cupboards in the west wall, which included a semi-circular arched cupboard with shaped shelves. The east room also had an 18th-century cornice. The attic is noted to be in need of attention.
Local climate
Carmarthen House 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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