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50, King Street, SA31 1BS

A Grade II Listed Building in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.857 / 51°51'25"N

Longitude: -4.3052 / 4°18'18"W

OS Eastings: 241346

OS Northings: 220115

OS Grid: SN413201

Mapcode National: GBR DG.T2S3

Mapcode Global: VH3LH.BLC8

Plus Code: 9C3QVM4V+RW

Entry Name: 50, King Street, SA31 1BS

Listing Date: 28 November 2003

Last Amended: 28 November 2003

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 82128

Building Class: Commercial

Also known as: 50 King Street, Carmarthen

ID on this website: 300082128

Location: Situated some 35m NE of junction with Jackson's Lane.

County: Carmarthenshire

Community: Carmarthen (Caerfyrddin)

Community: Carmarthen

Built-Up Area: Carmarthen

Traditional County: Carmarthenshire

Tagged with: Bookstore Shop Terrace house Reading room Stationer's Printery

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History

Left house of an earlier C19 pair of houses, notable as the printing works, circulating library and reading room first started in 1815 by John White (1762-1818), schoolmaster, who ran a Writing, Commercial & Mathematical School in King Street, perhaps here. The printing business of White & Watkins recorded in 1809 was a partnership of his wife Hannah and the Rev Joshua Watkins of Penuel Chapel, and from 1818-60 Hannah and her sons G.W. and I.W. White traded as White & Sons. William Rees, former tailor, ran bookshop and stationery business here from c1861 to the 1890s. In 1926 occupied by Mrs M. Thomas draper. In 2002 a gift shop.

Exterior

Terrace house with shop, a pair with No 49 to right. Both houses are of brick with painted roughcast cladding, 3-storeys and 2 bays. Slate eaves roofs with brick chimney to right and eaves cornice with paired modillions. Small paned sash windows to upper floors, replaced with C20 glazing on No 49, 12-pane sashes surviving on No 50. C20 full-width shopfronts. No 50 has attic dormer, fluted rainwater head and plaque to Hannah White. Rear of No 50 has close-eaved roof and one-window range of C20 windows.

Interior

Ground and first floors all altered.

Reasons for Listing

Included as one of a pair of early C19 stuccoed houses with some original detail surviving. Group value.

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