Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 Castle Street
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Walled town, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 26 June 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 June 1963
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14055, -4.27665
- Cadw reference
- 3844
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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
In a row of frontages near the N end of the street.
History
A mid C18 town house asymmetrically planned with entrance hall to the L and stair to its rear. It was associated with the Foxwist family and was said to have had a mantelpiece in the upper storey engraved 'Ll F 1777'. As the property of the Reverend Foxwist, the house was mentioned in the poor relief assessment of Caernarfon in 1788. The house was subsequently converted as a business premises. It was the Temperance Hotel by 1895 and was later converted to a shop known as Parton's Emporium, when the fenestration in the lower storey was altered. Now once again a house.
Exterior
A Georgian town house; roughcast front wall and slate roof. 3 soreyed, 3-window range in the lower storey is a group of 3 inserted 4-pane sash windows with sill band, L of which is a doorway in a fluted doorcase with shallow moulded canopy on console brackets. The panelled door, reached up steps, has a small-pane overlight. A low boarded door is to the R, while a former basement window is replaced by a metal grille. The middle storey has late C19 4-pane sash windows, the upper storey 6-pane horned sash windows, with sill bands to both storeys.
Interior
Not inspected, but said by RCAHM Wales to consist of 2 rooms in the lower storey, with back-to-back fireplaces set across the corner of each room, and a full-height dog-leg stair with turned balusters and pendants. Slate conduits are in the basement.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as an C18 town house retaining early character, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
Nearby in the register
- Ty GlyndwrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mantell GwyneddCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 Castle StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 20 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.