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Latitude: 51.9933 / 51°59'35"N
Longitude: -3.7986 / 3°47'54"W
OS Eastings: 276607
OS Northings: 234284
OS Grid: SN766342
Mapcode National: GBR Y4.JNF6
Mapcode Global: VH5F3.35Q9
Plus Code: 9C3RX6V2+8H
Entry Name: Frankville
Listing Date: 26 February 1981
Last Amended: 18 June 2004
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 10977
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300010977
Location: Situated at end of terraced row on junction with entrance to car park.
County: Carmarthenshire
Community: Llandovery (Llanymddyfri)
Community: Llandovery
Built-Up Area: Llandovery
Traditional County: Carmarthenshire
Tagged with: House
Earlier C19 pair with No 16, marked in rate books 1836-66 as owned by W Williams and probably altered or rebuilt in 1890s for J James of Penygawse, draper. Also said to have been built c.1890 for Frank Blick retired coachman to Mme Patti of Craig y Nos Castle, who named it Frankville. He may have been the first tenant.
End-terrace house, a mirrored pair with No. 16, each house of 2 bays and 2 storeys with slate gabled roof and the pair with end chimneys, missing on No 14. Bracketed eaves. Painted stucco facade with plinth and long and short quoins, 4-pane horned sashes to 1st floor, over 2-4-2-pane canted bay with dentil cornice to left and door to right in paired doorcase. Four-panelled door (2 raised and fielded; 2 flush) with rectangular overlight, in shallow panelled recess in doorcase of panelled pilasters with flat cornice on consoles.
Left hand return windowless roughcast, with deep eaves.
Inner door panelled and half glazed and with rectangular overlight. Fireplaces and doors replaced. Tongued and grooved dado panelling in front hall. Handrail replaced on stairs which have turned newel and balusters.
Included as part of a row of Victorian terraced houses with good surviving detail - well preserved examples of a characteristic C19 urban building type.
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