Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Morannedd Cafe
Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Criccieth, Gwynedd, designated on 12 December 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 12 December 1994
- Locality
- Criccieth
- Community
- Criccieth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91980, -4.22384
- Cadw reference
- 15348
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the eastern end of the Esplanade, close to the railway line.
History
Plans were submitted for the building of this beach cafe in 1948, with Clough Williams Ellis as consulting architect.
Exterior
Concrete construction with flat concrete roof reinforced with iron and carried with a bold overhand on a series of cast iron brackets. Single storeyed, the building is boomerang shaped, with the entrance in the centre, between the curved wings. Paired glazed doorways with glass-brick windows between and above them. Each wing has wide full-height windows articulated by a grid of metal glazing bars in the elevation facing the sea and curving round each curved end. The straighter rear walls are lit from windows set high up beneath the eaves.
Reason for designation
A distinctive sea-side pavillion which is a rare essay in the International modern style by one of the leading Welsh architects of the C20.
Nearby in the register
- Nant y FelinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint DeiniolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- PenpaledDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel y TraethReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.