Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 High Street
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 May 2002
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14061, -4.27746
- Cadw reference
- 26543
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the junction of High Street and Shirehall Street.
History
Built in the early C19 and shown on the 1834 town map.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 6-8 High Street.
A pair of late Georgian houses of coursed rubble stone with graded slate roof and end stacks rebuilt in brick. 3 storeys, each a single window range together forming a near-symmetrical pair. Paired central doorways have replaced panelled doors with radial-glazed overlights. Flanking windows are 16-pane hornless sashes to right, paired 8-pane horned sashes to left, hornless sashes of 12 and 9-panes aligned in first and second storeys. All openings have flat arched stone voussoir heads.
The L gable end of No 8 is rendered where an attached house has been taken down, and has an attached coped stone wall flanking a gateway to a car park behind. At the rear are doorways with shallow segmental heads to the inner sides, each with replaced boarded doors. No 6 is otherwise blank at the back. No 8 has inserted 4-pane sash windows in each storey.
Reason for designation
Listed for its good early C19 Georgian character and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
Nearby in the register
- 6 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hafod AurDomesticunder 1 mi
- Plas BowmanDomesticunder 1 mi
- 14 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.