Feasibility study for the Workhouse Gatehouse in Carmarthen
Carmarthenshire Heritage Regeneration Trust has received funding to undertake a feasibility study for options on the sustainable use of the Penlan Workhouse Gatehouse in Carmarthen. The Gatehouse has architectural significance as a grade II* listed building and the oldest surviving building on the site. It also has considerable historic association with the Rebecca rioters who stormed the workhouse in 1843. The rioters were cut down by dragoons – reportedly the last cavalry charge on British soil. The Carmarthenshire Heritage Regeneration Trust, a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee, has as one of its key objectives the purchasing, restoration and finding of new uses for redundant historic buildings. The organisation recently successfully restored and opened to the public Llanelly House a grade I listed building in the heart of Llanelli. This application is seen as the first step in the process for the CHRT to purchase and regenerate the property for a wider...
