Laugharne Castle was established by 1116 under Robert Courtemain, and the De Brian family held it from 1247. In 1171 and 1172 Henry II and Rhys ap Gruffudd met there and agreed a peace treaty. Rhys seized it in 1189, and the Normans rebuilt it. Major rebuilding followed in the late thirteenth century, which left two round towers, and the height was raised in the mid-fourteenth.
Sir John Perrott, to whom Elizabeth I granted Laugharne in 1584, converted the castle into a Tudor mansion. In 1403 Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion stalled here after an ambush cost him 700 men. Parliamentary forces took it in 1644 after a week-long siege and slighted it.
In the late 1930s Richard Hughes leased Castle House, and Dylan Thomas later worked there. Cadw cares for it, and it is Grade I listed.
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