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Dylan Thomas Boathouse

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The Dylan Thomas Boathouse is a house on a cliff above the Taf estuary in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The poet Dylan Thomas, who had first visited Laugharne in 1934 and settled there permanently in 1938 with his wife Caitlin, lived at the Boathouse for the last four years of his life, from 1949 to 1953, after Margaret Taylor, wife of the historian A. J. P. Taylor, bought the property for the family. The couple raised their three children, Aeronwy, Llewelyn and Colm, there, and Thomas wrote most of his later work in a shed nearby, including the poem Over Sir John's Hill, inspired by the view of the estuary. After Thomas's death in 1953 the property passed through several owners before Carmarthenshire County Council acquired it; it now operates as a museum with rooms restored to their 1950s appearance and a reconstructed writing shed, drawing about 15,000 visitors a year. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
House 2
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Museum 2
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Historic house museum 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Laugharne Township, United Kingdom 2
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Standing 1
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House, Concepts

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Museum, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Dylan Thomas Boathouse (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas_Boathouse, lead definition
    The Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, was where Dylan Thomas lived with his family during his last four years between 1949 and 1953.
  • standing status determination
    After Thomas's death in 1953 the property passed through several owners before Carmarthenshire County Council acquired it; it now operates as a museum with rooms restored to their 1950s appearance and a reconstructed writing shed, drawing about 15,000 visitors a year.
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2. Dylan Thomas Boathouse (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (historic house museum)
    Wikidata item Q4265294, instance of (P31): historic house museum (case-merged into the existing atlas casing).
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 374431): Laugharne Township, United Kingdom
    Wikidata item Q4265294, property P131/P17 (location): Laugharne Township, United Kingdom
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Wikidata: Dylan Thomas Boathouse
Wikidata Q4265294, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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