American Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 October 1972. House.
American Villa
- WRENN ID
- broken-basalt-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- American Villa, 41 Ammanford Road, Llandybie Village, Ammanford, Llandybie
- OS grid reference
- SN 619 152
- Coordinates
- 51.81875, -4.00455
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The American Villa is a Grade II listed 'balloon-frame' timber house, differing slightly in design from No. 39. It has two storeys and an attic, with a gable facing the street and three bay return elevations. The north side features a central advanced full-height gable, which corresponds to a flush gable on the south side. A veranda in the north-east corner forms a porch at the street front, providing access to the main doorway. The house has clap-boarded walls, slate roofs with tile ridges, and brick chimneys, with gutters made from wooden troughs above the roof boarding. The veranda is supported by turned timber posts and curved brackets, and the house features timber bargeboards. In some areas, it is supported on dwarf brick piers. The windows are sash style, with two pairs, single windows at the sides, and pairs in the gables, all without glazing bars. The doors are semi-glazed with margin panes. The overall design is quite plain, with only slight decorative notching visible on the underside of the cladding boards within the gables.
Local climate
American Villa sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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