Roche was a 13th Century fortified house just outside Laugharne. Laugharne is a small town and medieval borough in which there has been considerable survival of historic features. The foundation of an Anglo-Norman castle by 1170 that led to the development of a town at Laugharne. A settlement probably grew outside the castle soon after its foundation, and around the small inlet which became a port.

The late Medieval farmstead or manor-house of Roche Castle also known as, or recorded in historical documents as Macrels, lying to the west of Laugharne was distinct from the borough. Laugharne seems to have been a fairly successful small town throughout the Medieval period. In the latter part of the 19th century Laugharne became a fashionable ‘resort’ town. Many of the modest dwellings of an earlier period were rebuilt in the fashion of the day. By the mid 19th-century the town lost both its fashionable status, and the remnants of its coastal trade, and suffered stagnation and decline.

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