The land, spanning roughly 1.15 acres, includes a substantial Victorian suburban home designed within the Italianate fashion
Grade-II listed Lime Grove Home in Carmarthen is at present on the market (Picture: John Francis, Carmarthen)
A uncommon alternative has emerged to buy a 1.15-acre improvement web site with full planning permission for 14 items, comprising 9 flats and 5 indifferent properties. The plot is situated inside a residential district roughly 0.5 miles North-west of the colourful market city centre of Carmarthen.
The land, overlaying roughly 1.15 acres, boasts the spectacular Lime Grove Home, a big Victorian suburban home crafted within the Italianate fashion. Cadw – the Welsh Authorities’s historic surroundings service – listed the home as Grade II in 2003, recognising it as “a considerable later Victorian suburban home in Italianate fashion”. The itemizing additionally gives a quick chronicle of the home on the location, which appears to have originated as a smaller villa depicted on the 1837 Tithe map, and was marketed for lease in 1840, boasting “three parlours and 5 bedrooms”, reviews Wales On-line.
Cadw reviews that the property was remodelled round 1855 by Carmarthen architect William Wesley Jenkins, leading to a double-depth plan residence, seemingly topped with a hipped or near-pyramidal roof, designed within the Italianate fashion Jenkins most popular for different nation estates throughout that interval. A courtyard on the rear accommodated purpose-built stables and a coach home.
Native solicitor William Morgan Griffiths acquired the property in 1884, extending it with additions to the rear, while concurrently redesigning the frontage and altering the 1850s inside options, which included eradicating the unique staircase. Subsequently, Henry Brunel White owned the residence, occupying it till 1941.
In 1937, the Church of Wales took possession of the home, changing it into the Diocesan Excessive Faculty for Ladies, a fee-paying boarding faculty, with supplementary instructing rooms constructed on the again.
A standalone chapel was constructed, though it now not belongs to the property. The academic establishment closed in 1964 and was subsequently reworked into residences through the Nineteen Seventies earlier than turning into business premises, although it has remained vacant since 2014, in response to the promoting agent.
The principal construction includes a web inside space of 668 sq. metres (7,190 sq. ft) and stable masonry partitions beneath a slate roof. The property’s most distinctive traits – two buff brick chimney stacks – are topped by sq. crested pots, 10 per stack.
The agent reviews that planning consent was accepted on October 28, 2024, beneath utility reference PL/05392 for reworking the previous business house into 9 residential items, incorporating the elimination of the separate laboratory workplaces and aspect lean-to conveniences and boiler room extensions. The proposals additionally embody the constructing of three indifferent homes and two indifferent bungalows on the location.
CGI exhibits what the house may appear to be restored (Picture: John Francis, Carmarthen)
Listed Constructing Consent for the scheme acquired approval on March 11, 2024 beneath utility reference PL/05410.
The agent notes that the authorised works should start inside 5 years of the consent date, and there are not any part 106 or group infrastructure levy (CIL) obligations, and the property doesn’t sit inside a conservation space.
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Potential consumers even have the possibility to redevelop the situation for various makes use of (together with a boutique lodge, a GP surgical procedure), topic to securing the required consents.
A full planning pack and authorized pack are obtainable upon request, and events ought to perform their very own investigations with the Carmarthenshire County Council Planning Division. The positioning is offered for buy with a information worth of £795,000, contact John Francis, Carmarthen on 01267 340069 for additional particulars.
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