Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
28 High Street
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Walled town, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 29 May 1968.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 29 May 1968
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14066, -4.27620
- Cadw reference
- 3876
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
In a row of frontages midway along the street.
History
A late C18 or early C19 shop shown on the 1834 town map. It was a temperance house in 1883 and a confectioner's by 1895.
Exterior
Georgian house and shop, brick with rusticated quoins and slate roof. 3 story, 3 window range. The lower storey has a shallow bowed shop front with openings framed by fluted pilasters, plain fascia and moulded cornice. It's recessed central half-lit panelled door has a hinged overlight. To the R and L are 2-light windows above stallboards boarded over, possibly concealing cellar openings. At the R end is a round-headed doorway with radial overlight and a recessed panelled door incorporating fielded panels. The middle and upper storeys have keyed wedge lintels to hornless sashes which are 12-pane in the middle storey and 9-pane above, except the upper centre window which is blind.
Reason for designation
Listed for its retention of early C19 Georgian character, including an especially well-preserved and finely detailed early C19 shop front, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
Nearby in the register
- Castle ChambersCommercialunder 1 mi
- (including boundary wall to rear yard.)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 23 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 25 High StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.