NPRN17608
Map ReferenceSN42SW
Grid ReferenceSN4186920497
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCarmarthenshire
Old CountyCarmarthenshire
CommunityCarmarthen
Type Of SiteTERRACED HOUSING
PeriodPost Medieval
DescriptionFour undistinguished late nineteenth century cottages have been contrived out of the fabric of the late fifteenth-early sixteenth century gatehouse to St John's Priory (NPRN 100039). The gatehouse is not divided up on the 1st edition OS 1:500 Town Plan of 1888. According to an early nineteenth century account the gatehouse was 'inhabited by poor people, who have converted the remainder into cart-house, pig-sties and other such receptacles' (Donovan 'Descriptive Excursions through South Wales & Monmouthshire' 1804).
The three other houses of the terrace, Nos. 8-10 to the south-west, are additions to the original building, but are shown on a map of 1786.
Sources: James in the Carmarthenshire Antiquary 29 (1993), 23-6
CADW Listed Buildings Database (9510, 82135-7)
John Wiles 23.11.07