Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Post Office
Pentir, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 September 1997
- Locality
- Glasinfryn
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Pentir
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.19753, -4.11751
- Cadw reference
- 18930
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
One of two adjoining cottages at the S end of the High Street, set behind a stone walled front garden.
History
Built in the mid to later C19 at the time of expansion in this small nucleated village, and formerly used as the village post office.
Exterior
Built of uncoursed large stone rubble, continuous with No. 8 which it adjoins to the N. Slate roof. Two bays, symmetrical, central hallway plan with flanking reception rooms and gable stacks. Central framed and boarded door, below a gabled slated canopy. Six-paned horned sash windows to the ground floor, and similar but smaller windows to the upper floor, all openings with timber lintels. The gable stacks are of brick. Outbuilding to rear.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved small village house, and one of a pair in the Conservation area of this unusually nucleated village.
Nearby in the register
- 8 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Elizabeth TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Elizabeth TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Elizabeth TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.