Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 Market Street
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Walled town, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 22 May 1967.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 22 May 1967
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14095, -4.27688
- Cadw reference
- 3891
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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
Adjoining the N side of the Conservative Club.
History
A mid C18 house said to have formerly borne a rainwater head dated 1755. In the C19 it became the Drum Inn, the front was roughcast in the late C19. Converted to a surgery in the late C20.
Exterior
A Georgian 2½ storey 3-window house of scribed roughcast wall and renewed slate roof. A central fielded-panel door has a plain overlight, and a doorcase with consoles and cornice, with lozenges inscribed in the pilasters. Windows are late C19 4-pane horned sashes in original openings. Gabled dormers incorporate small-pane opening lights.
The rendered rear elevation has a single-storey projection and 3 skylights.
Interior
The original plan form of central entrance hall with rooms to the R and L and stairs at the rear is still discernible but the plan is otherwise much altered. The full-height dog-leg stair has turned balusters and square newels.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as a house retaining Georgian external character and some internal detail, a relatively unusual survival of a house from before significant redevelopment of Caernarfon beginning in the late C18, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
Nearby in the register
- 5 Market StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box outside The Crown public houseCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Caernarfon Royal Town Conservative ClubCommercialunder 1 mi
- 7 Market Street, including railings and stepsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.