Former Priory Street School with walls and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. A Late 20th century for rear wing School, offices.
Former Priory Street School with walls and railings
- WRENN ID
- white-stone-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1981
- Type
- School, offices
- Period
- Late 20th century for rear wing
- Address
- Former Priory Street School with walls and railings, Carmarthen
- OS grid reference
- SN 417 204
- Coordinates
- 51.8597, -4.29976
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Priory Street School, now used as offices, is a Gothic-style building constructed in coursed rubble stone with Bath stone dressings and slate eaves roofs featuring bargeboards. It is a single-storey structure with a long main range running east to west. The entrance gable projects to the right of the center on the north front and includes a small square turret in the angle to the right. A late 20th-century rear wing has been added.
The building has an ashlar plinth and quoins. The eastern end features a traceried three-light window with two cinquefoils and one quatrefoil, topped by a roundel. The north wall has large windows with chamfered and stopped surrounds and cambered heads, consisting of one single window and two pairs. Each window has a late 20th-century skylight above it. The lower gabled porch wing has a plain bargeboard, one first-floor window, and a pointed doorway with a ledged door offset to the right. In the angle to the right, there is a slender square bell turret with two cusped belfry openings on each side and a steep pyramidal slate roof, along with a round ashlar chimney on the ridge. The wall to the right is windowless. The western end wall has three similar cambered-headed long windows with relieving arches above them. The rear wall contains two similar pairs of windows to the right and the added wing to the left.
In front, there is a forecourt wall made of stone with ashlar chamfered coping and short iron railings featuring three horizontal bars between standards, with two at the top, one at the bottom, and diagonal struts. The standards have branched finials. Since 1981, the walls have been restored and altered, resulting in the loss of gates, now forming two L-shaped lengths.
The interior has been mostly modernized, but the schoolroom retains a fine stained glass window at the eastern end, dating from 1870, depicting scenes from the education of Christ, which was given by Valentine Davies.
Local climate
Former Priory Street School with walls and railings 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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