Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
50 Mount Street
Bala, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bala, Gwynedd, designated on 19 October 1951.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1951
- Community
- Bala
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91052, -3.59694
- Cadw reference
- 25966
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1899 · 136 Bala (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.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of nos 48, 50 & 52 Mount Street.
Terrace of three second-quarter C19 cottages in vernacular Gothic style. One-and-a-half storeys and constructed of squared, rough-dressed blocks of local stone; slate dressings. Continuous (renewed) slate roof with tiled ridges; 3 large stone chimneys with simple capping. Nos 50 and 52 form an identical pair of 2-window cottages; no 48 is similarly a 2-window unit, though advanced slightly and with a broad shallow gable; oversailing verges and eaves, plain modern bargeboards throughout. Central entrances with modern doors to nos 48 and 50; no 52 has a C19 6-panel door with the central panels glazed. This and no 50 adjoining have triangular heads to both entrance and flanking windows, with projecting slate labels and simple triangular fans. Two-pane C20 casement windows to both floors; those to the upper floor break the eaves and are contained within shallow gabled dormers; triangular overlights as before. No 48 has square-headed windows with C20 glazing (triple tilting sections above plain lower sections); triangular-headed niche to the gable apex.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of a terrace of three second-quarter C19 cottages retaining good external vernacular Gothic character.
Nearby in the register
- 52 Mount StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 48 Mount StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Congregational Chapel, Including Forecourt Walls, Piers and RailingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ken Davies NewsagentCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.