Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former warehouse on Balaclava Road
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Victoria Dock, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 3 May 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 3 May 2002
- Locality
- Victoria Dock
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14279, -4.27532
- Cadw reference
- 26637
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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
Opposite Pretoria Terrace and on the SE side of Victoria Dock. Warehouse on Victoria Dock is attached on the N side.
History
Probably contemporary with Victoria Dock, completed in 1874, and shown on the 1890 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 2-storey warehouse of rubble granite with larger quoins and a renewed slate roof. Openings were mainly boarded up at the time of inspection. Facing Balaclava Road, the S gable end is of cyclopean granite. It has central boarded double doors and a single half-lit door to the L, each with its overlight boarded up. A small inserted window is further L, while a small window with brick jambs and slate lintel and sill has been inserted to the R between storeys. In the upper storey the central window has a shallow 4-centred arch and is flanked by camber-headed windows. These wood-framed windows all have brick dressings, the outer windows also with slate sills.
The L side wall has 6 windows beneath the eaves, with brick dressings. The R (E) side wall has 6 openings, but only the L-hand window has brick dressings on its L side. In the lower storey are 7 doorways, the R-hand narrower, under wooden lintels obscured by a later fascia.
Reason for designation
Listed as a warehouse retaining good character in the functional tradition and for group value with other listed items at Victoria Dock.
Nearby in the register
- Former warehouse at Victoria DockCommercialunder 1 mi
- Arfon OceaneeringCommercialunder 1 mi
- Drawbridge on S side of Victoria DockMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Crane at Victoria DockMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.