Outer Gatehouse to Laugharne Castle, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.77 / 51°46'12"N

Longitude: -4.4623 / 4°27'44"W

OS Eastings: 230202

OS Northings: 210794

OS Grid: SN302107

Mapcode National: GBR D7.ZRTT

Mapcode Global: VH3LS.LRVZ

Plus Code: 9C3QQGCQ+23

Entry Name: Outer Gatehouse to Laugharne Castle

Listing Date: 25 September 1986

Last Amended: 25 September 1986

Grade: I

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 9652

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300009652

Location: At the bottom of the street near the town Hall, reached by path in front of Castle House.

County: Carmarthenshire

Community: Laugharne Township (Treflan Lacharn)

Community: Laugharne Township

Built-Up Area: Laugharne

Traditional County: Carmarthenshire

Tagged with: Gatehouse

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History

Rubble 2-storey formerly crenellated gatehouse of late C13/early C14 origin and late. John Perrot alterations (1587-92). N side destroyed in Civil War siege.

Exterior

Gateway passage flanked by rectangular guardroom chambers to ground floor and central room with side garderobe to upper floor.

Voussoired openings, chamfered and spur buttresses, arrowslits with oillets; dragon to weathervane.

In a Scheduled Ancient Monument Site.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Boundry Wall to W of Castle House, including gated entrance
Lining the road in front of the house and serving as a northern boundary to the Castle area.
II* Castle House
Prominently sited to N of the castle and entered through the same iron gates.
II Section of boundry walls around Castle grounds running SW.from outer Gatehouse
Adjoining Outer Gatehouse and reached by a path in front of Castle House.
II* Town Hall
Forward to the street at the junction with Wogan Street, close to the castle; Market Lane to rear.
I Laugharne Castle
On an elevated coastal site near the town Hall, reached by path in front of Castle House.
II Globe House (including SB & RB Gleed, Butcher's Shop)
Opposite the town Hall at the end of the street, on the corner with Duncan Street. Formerly the Globe Hotel, sold in 1869.
II Gwalia
Opposite the town Hall and adjoining Globe House.
II Manchester House
Opposite the town Hall and adjoining Globe House.

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Outer Gatehouse to Laugharne Castle

A Grade I Listed Building in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire

Coordinates

History

Exterior

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