Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
5 Castle Street
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Walled town, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 8 October 1953.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 8 October 1953
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14047, -4.27658
- Cadw reference
- 3845
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
Facing a courtyard with monument on the E side of the street.
History
Built in the early C19 by Richard Garnons, a prominent local landowner. It was described as 'a large new house' in 1809. It was converted as business premises later in the C19 and in 1895 was the office of a solicitor and a printer.
Exterior
A late Georgian 3-bay 3-storey house of coursed dressed stone and replaced hipped slate roof. The lower storey has a slightly projecting plinth below sill level. The wide central doorway has a round head with prominent voussoirs and a radial-glazed overlight. The door has been replaced. Windows have flat heads with voussoirs and in the middle and upper storeys have sill bands. In 12-pane horned sash windows to ground floor in the middle and upper storeys similar 9-pane windows to 1st and 2nd storeys.
The 2-bay L side wall facing Castle Street has tripartite horned sash windows to the L and a shallow broad canted bay to the R incorporating 12-pane horned sash windows. At the L end is a round-headed doorway with a replaced door recessed and reached up steps. This leads to a through passage beneath the upper storeys. The R side wall retains sash windows but has an added 2-storey wing (a separate property known as Plas Llanwnda).
Interior
The interior has been modernised and the plan form altered, although rudiments of the original plan, comprising a central entrance hall and principal rooms R and L, are retained.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as a former gentleman's town house with an exterior retaining strong late Georgian character and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Boundary wall in front of 5 Castle StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mantell GwyneddCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ty GlyndwrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.