Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former warehouse at Victoria Dock
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
- 53.14296, -4.27570
- Cadw reference
- 26638
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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
On the SE side of the dock with warehouses abutting on the W and S sides. Attached to former warehouse on Balaclava Road to the S and to Arfon engineering to the W.
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, hipped to the N end. Openings were mainly boarded up at the time of inspection. In the pebble-dashed N wall, facing the dock, is a wide doorway, slightly inset, and a further doorway at the L end. In the upper storey is a central doorway with brick jambs and flanked by windows, all beneath the eaves. A stub wall is on the L (E) side. In the W side wall, behind the abutting warehouse, is a single upper-storey window.
The 6-window E side wall has, in the lower storey, a wide doorway to the L converted to 2 doorways by part infilling with brick, and with brick dressings under wooden lintels. The R-hand of the 2 doorways has double boarded doors. Further R are 2 central windows with brick jambs and wooden lintels, the R-hand of which retains a vertical sliding upper sash. To their R is another, single doorway and then a camber-headed window at the R end.
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
- Arfon OceaneeringCommercialunder 1 mi
- Drawbridge on S side of Victoria DockMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Former warehouse on Balaclava RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- Crane at Victoria DockMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.