Job's Well House is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 November 2003. House.

Job's Well House

WRENN ID
sharp-belfry-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 November 2003
Type
House
Address
Job's Well House, Carmarthen
OS grid reference
SN 396 200
Coordinates
51.85601, -4.32954
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Job's Well House is a gentry house that has been converted into hospital premises. It features painted roughcast and stucco with slate roofs that have deep eaves. The building is tall and narrow, consisting of three storeys and three bays in the main range, which has brick end stacks. There are two added projecting gabled wings that are two storeys high. The main house displays deep flat eaves with a scalloped fascia board, while the wings have moulded bargeboards. All three parts have narrow angle strips and narrow bands over each floor on the wings.

The main house has tripartite 2-4-2-pane sash windows on the upper floors, along with a square bay window to the left of centre on the ground floor and an enclosed porch to the right, though the bay is not aligned. The bay features a string course beneath the parapet, a large tripartite window at the front, and single windows in the side walls. The porch has minimal Tudor styling, with octagonal angle piers, two narrow bands on the original parapet (with an added top course), and bands on the piers at two-thirds height. The plain chamfered Tudor doorway has double 4-panel doors. The gable ends have paired pointed attic lights and brackets supporting the deep verges, which are adorned with fretted bargeboards.

The wings contain large tripartite casement windows with top lights on the first floor. The left wing has an altered ground floor featuring tripartite glazing and top lights, along with a centrally located half-glazed door. The side wall of this wing has a prominent external chimney breast with a 15-pane window on each side at ground level, a 12-pane window on the first floor to the left of the chimney, and a long stair-light further left. The right gable features an original hollow-moulded Tudor tripartite mullion-and-transom window with Tudor-arched heads on all lights, likely serving as a model for other lost windows. There are front iron area railings. The right wing extends further back than the left wing, and its side wall has two external chimney breasts (with the right one missing its stack) and a central gable. The windows on this side are from the 20th century.

At the rear of the main house, there are two narrow gabled bays, with the larger bay on the left containing two 12-pane stair lights. The centre bay has triple sash windows on each floor, while the right gable has a 12-pane sash window on both upper floors, with the ground floor obscured.

Inside, the entrance hall features a broad Tudor inner arch that has been infilled. There are no other original details on the ground floor, and the staircase does not appear to be original.

Local climate

Job's Well 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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