Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ken Davies Newsagent
Bala, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bala, Gwynedd, designated on 13 December 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 13 December 2001
- Community
- Bala
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91086, -3.59727
- Cadw reference
- 26000
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.
History
Late Georgian shop building with later C19 shopfront and alterations to upper windows.
Exterior
Three-storey late Georgian house and shop, part of a terrace. Of local rubble construction with slate roof and end chimneys; plain cornicing. C20 shop front with large plain-glazed windows flanking an off-centre entrance to the L. The first floor has two Victorian canted wooden bay windows with moulded cornices, that to the L dentilated; 6-pane sashes to the latter, and plain 4-pane sashes to that to the R. Plain 4-pane sashes to the second floor.
Interior
Modernised shop interior.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 house and shop retaining good later C19 character.
Nearby in the register
- Caffi'r CyfnodCommercialunder 1 mi
- Statue Of T.E. EllisCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Yr EryrCommercialunder 1 mi
- 48 Mount StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.