Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
15&16 Market Square
Fishguard and Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1978
- Locality
- Fishguard
- Town
- Fishguard
- Community
- Fishguard and Goodwick
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.99364, -4.97617
- Cadw reference
- 12318
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated to right of The Farmers Arms and attached to No 17.
History
Early to mid C19 house, now offices. Building shown on this site on Kensington Estate map of 1808. There was a hotel on this site in 1830s. An old photograph of c1932 shows ground floor with window to left, centre door and small shop-window right.
Exterior
House with shopfront, rusticated stucco cladding, with slate roof and brick stack to left end. Three-storey, 2-window range, upper floors with late glass sash windows and ground floor with late C20 double plate glass shop front with fascia and cornice on pilasters, and central glazed door. Lines stucco voussoirs and keystones over upper windows. Plain roughcast left gable end with small casement window to left at second floor level.
Since 1978 one chimney has been removed and windows replaced.
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent 3-storey late Georgian style building on the square.
Nearby in the register
- 17&18 Market SquareCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Farmer's ArmsCommercialunder 1 mi
- 20 Market Square, including Boots the Chemists.Commercialunder 1 mi
- The Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.