Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Arfon Oceaneering
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
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
- 53.14292, -4.27583
- Cadw reference
- 26639
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
Adjoining the dry dock on the SE side of Victoria Dock.
History
Built in the final decade of the C19 and first shown on the 1900 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A tall single-storey structure of rubble-stone with integral pipes laid as vents, and renewed slate roof, with a small stack to the N gable end. In the N gable end, facing the dock, a tall wide opening has brick jambs and steel girder lintel. It has late C20 glazing and shop front. In the gable are blocked vent strips in brick surrounds. The R side wall is built above the snecked-stone side wall of the dry dock. The rear gable end has a large inserted opening below blocked vents in the gable similar to the N side.
Interior
The 6-bay roof is retained, with queen-post trusses strengthened by steel rods.
Reason for designation
Listed notwithstanding alteration in gable end, as a dock-side building 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
- Drawbridge on S side of Victoria DockMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Former warehouse on Balaclava RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
- Victoria Dock wallsMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.