Castle House (Carmarthenshire)

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Castle House in Laugharne

Castle House is a manor house in Laugharne in the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire . The Georgian-style building is classified as Historic Building II *. Grades and Dylan Thomas describes it as "the best house in the best place". It is one of many notable buildings in the medieval town.

It was built around 1730 and rebuilt inside and out in the Regency . The three-story house has a facade with five bays, with the middle three bays protruding somewhat. An ornamental gable is attached above the entrance in the middle; above there are three-part windows; the top one is a Venetian window . A wide cornice on the facade hides the slate roof. Various wings, lower than the main block, extend backwards; one of them, like the main block, was built in the 18th century. Most of the interior is from the Regency or later times, but it features the only Chinese Chippendale-style staircase in Carmarthenshire.

There used to be a number of outbuildings behind the house, as can be seen on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey Country Series map (Carmarthen, XLV.14, 1899), and the Laugharne Castle estate was formerly a landscaped garden and served as a home garden. Two of the outbuildings that have survived to this day have been converted into a bed and breakfast and a restaurant . Although the castle is now administered by the Cadw , the title still belongs to the house.

Until recently, Castle House still belonged to the Starke family , as it had since the beginning of the 19th century. Today it is the private home of David Thomas and Abi Thomas , the daughter of the local sculptor David Petersen . The house is also closely associated with writers. During his stay there, Dylan Thomas wrote his Portrait of the Artist as Young Dog and Richard Hughes his In Hazard .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Castle House, Market Street, Laugharne Township . British Historic Buildings. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  2. ^ Thomas Lloyd: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion . Yale University Press. 2006. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  3. ^ A b John Wiles: Castle House, Laugharne . In: Coflein . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. January 29, 2008. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  4. ^ Thomas Lloyd: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion . Yale University Press. 2006. Retrieved November 18, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 12.7 "  N , 4 ° 27 ′ 43.9"  W.