Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Palace Cafe
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Walled town, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 31 March 1983.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 31 March 1983
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13979, -4.27589
- Cadw reference
- 3908
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
At the S end of the street, facing Castle Ditch and Caernarfon Castle.
History
Probably built in the C19 although its front was remodelled early C20.
Exterior
Georgian style 3-storey 3-bay shop with dwelling above, with faceted front elevation facing the castle; scribed roughcast walls, hipped slate roof with roughcast stack to the L side. In the lower storey is a central doorway in a rusticated surround, with replaced door. In the R-hand bay is a 12-pane horned sash window with sill in a similar rusticated surround. The L-hand bay is blank. Above is a thin then a much deeper moulded cornice continuous around the L side wall. The middle storey has 12-pane hornless sash windows, the upper storey similar 9-pane sashes. The Palace Street, has a similar single bay to arrangement of single sash windows in the upper storeys. In the lower storey is a triple window of 2-pane sashes in rusticated surrounds. The R side wall, facing Hole in the Wall Street, has a slate plaque with the street name and late C20 windows offset to the R.
Reason for designation
Listed for its well-mannered late Georgian character on a prominent corner site, and with other associated listed items for its contribution to the setting of Caernarfon Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Siop y PlasCommercialunder 1 mi
- Palace VaultsCommercialunder 1 mi
- 18 Palace StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 16a Palace StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.