Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
13 Market Street
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 March 1983
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14127, -4.27691
- Cadw reference
- 3895
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
Built directly on to the street and projecting forward from houses on the N and S sides.
History
An C18 house shown on the 1810 town plan.
Exterior
Small house of unconventional form 3-window with a pedimented gable facing the street and spanning the centre and L windows, while the doorway is to the R within a rendered and probably added projection. Of coursed, squared rubble front with flat arches to the windows, slate roof with added brick stack to the gable and rendered stack to the R. The windows are replaced in original openings and have a sill band in the upper storey to the centre and L. The doorway has a panelled door with overlight.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding replacement of windows, for group value with 3-11 Market Street, and as an C18 town house for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Market Street, including railings and stepsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Market Street, including railings and stepsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Market Street, including railings and stepsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 14 Market StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.