Saint Mary's Auction House

Mid terrace town house and business premises in painted roughcast with slate roof and red brick stacks. Three storeys and cellar, 3-window range. Late C19 or early C20 shop-front. Central deeply recessed paired doors with glazed upper panels and large rectangular overlight, flanked by canted plate glass panes between 2 large plate glass shop-windows with wide timber sills with thin turned shafts to angles. Two cast iron columns within support concealed lintel. Beneath are C20 cellar vents. Casing of shopfront has fluted pilasters each side, fascia , and modillion cornice. First floor has cambered-headed 12-pane hornless timber sashes, also with cambered heads. Painted slate sills. Raised stucco band between floors. Upper floor has cambered heads to panes of top sash, but flat heads under eaves. Hornless small-paned sashes and painted slate sills. Painted renewed eaves cornice with small modillions. Cast iron rainwater goods above.

The C18 staircase between first and second floor listed in 1981 was removed c1993, but some panelled doors remain. Late C19 stair on backwall corner, dog-leg with turned balusters and newels with ball finials. Two late C19 iron columns in shop-window by T. Jones Priory Foundry Carmarthen. Rear auction-room has continuous cast-iron rail fronting 3-sided gallery with decorative bowed front and cast-iron brackets with circle motif on brick piers. Dated 1899. The gallery ironwork to a neo-rococo pattern resembles that of Tabernacle Chapel, Waterloo Terrace. End has similar balustrade possibly reset in C20. Roof has 4 trusses with iron tie, diagonal struts and central rod.