Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Harlech, Gwynedd, designated on 21 June 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 21 June 2001
- Locality
- Harlech
- Community
- Harlech
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.85831, -4.10876
- Cadw reference
- 25503
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)
- 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)
- 1899 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the street-line, adjoining Plas Cafe.
History
Mid-Victorian shop perhaps with earlier, second-quarter C19 origins. The building (or its predecessor) is shown on the 1840 Llandanwg Tithe map, though its present character is third-quarter C19. The implication therefore is that the present building is a replacement, or else a remodelling of, that shown in the map.
Exterior
Two-storey commercial premesis, consisting of a continuous ground-floor shop front and a 3-window first-floor. Of rubble construction with whitened facade of roughly-dressed, snecked, squared blocks; medium-pitched slate roof with 3 irregularly-spaced ashlar chimneys; plain banding and capping. The shop front is late C19 or early C20 and has an applied modern signboard to a fascia with simply-moulded ends. 2-bay plain glazed panels flank a central entrance; to the R is an entrance giving access to the first-floor with original door having 2-panel glazed upper section and plain rectangular overlight. The first floor has 3 recessed, 24-pane unhorned sashes, asymmetrically spaced. Adjoining the building to the L is a short stretch of unwhitened rubble wall standing to a height of approximately 3m; this has an entrance with modern door.
The unwhitened rear facade has asymmetrical openings: tall 18-pane stair-light to the L and two 12-pane sashes to the R on both floors; those to the upper floor have modern external wooden slatted shutters.
Interior
Modern shop interior.
Reason for designation
Listed as a mid Victorian commercial premises retaining original character in a prominent road-side location.
Group value with the adjoining Plas Cafe.
Nearby in the register
- The PlasCommercialunder 1 mi
- Parish Church of St TanwgReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Harlech Pottery including Forecourt Walls and RailingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gweithdy SaerCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.