Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
72 High Street
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 13 December 2001
- Community
- Bala
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.91000, -3.59871
- Cadw reference
- 26020
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 house and shop premises, originally forming a terrace with the Barclays Bank building adjoining to the L. The windows were replaced in the mid C19 and the shop front modernised in the later C20.
Exterior
Three-storey late Georgian house and shop. Of local rubble construction with slate roof and end chimney to R; plain cornicing and weathercoursing. The ground floor has an entrance to the L with modern door and plain rectangular overlight; this gives access to the domestic section on the upper floors. The shop front, to the R, is modern. Mid-C19 6-pane sash to the first floor R only, with squatter contemporary 6-pane sashes to the second, the latter under the eaves; projecting stone sills throughout.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late Georgian house and shop retaining simpleC19 character to the upper floors.
Group value with Barclays Bank adjoining.
Nearby in the register
- Barclays BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Cwpwrdd Cornel CafeCommercialunder 1 mi
- E.J. Theodore, IronmongerCommercialunder 1 mi
- Y Siop FachCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.