Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
56 Pool Street
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 3 May 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 May 2002
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13907, -4.27151
- Cadw reference
- 26578
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 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 · 105 Carnarvon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set into a row of frontages near the E end of the street.
History
Probably early C19 and one of the buildings shown on Pool Street on the 1834 town plan. It was a butcher's shop in 1895. Facade remodelled later C19.
Exterior
A shop with dwelling above; 2½ storeys and single window front; roughcast with rendered quoins, and slate roof with brick end stacks. The lower storey shop front comprises a broad 6-pane horned sash window over a roughcast stallboard and a 2-pane sash splayed on the L side to a recessed panelled door under an overlight. The shop front is framed by pilasters with narrow raised fields, beneath a moulded cornice. The upper storey has a 4-pane sash window to the R in a moulded architrave, above which is a gabled dormer with fretwork bargeboards, incorporating a round-headed 4-pane sash window.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare well-preserved C19 shop and dwelling, and for its contribution to a group of well-preserved but humbler C19 urban buildings at the SE end of Pool Street.
Nearby in the register
- 54 Pool StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 65 Pool StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 67-69 Pool StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 44 Pool StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.