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Latitude: 51.7715 / 51°46'17"N
Longitude: -4.4627 / 4°27'45"W
OS Eastings: 230177
OS Northings: 210962
OS Grid: SN301109
Mapcode National: GBR D7.ZRNW
Mapcode Global: VH3LS.LQLT
Plus Code: 9C3QQGCP+JW
Entry Name: Gainsford House
Listing Date: 25 September 1986
Last Amended: 25 September 1986
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 9642
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300009642
County: Carmarthenshire
Community: Laugharne Township (Treflan Lacharn)
Community: Laugharne Township
Built-Up Area: Laugharne
Traditional County: Carmarthenshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The adjoining Post Office was formerly the stores to Gainsford House with later alterations and no longer of special interest.
Later C19, built by the local David family, became a hotel and then a chemist in early C20. Victoria Gothic (? stype of J P Seddon) 2-storey, 5-window bull-nosed rubble (said to be cornish stone) front with freestone window dressings; rusticated quoins and plinth. Slate roof, brick and rubble chimney stacks and bracket eaves. Tripartite horned sash windows with depressed arched heads and brick banded voussoir lintels to 1st floor; steeper pointed arched heads to ground floor right with rubble voussoirs; similar treatment to central 6-panel door entrance. Shop front to left with paired semi-circular headed lights flanking pointed arched half-glazed entrance.
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