Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
16a Palace Street
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
- 53.13999, -4.27612
- Cadw reference
- 3914
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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 near the S end of the street.
History
A small single-unit C17 house incorporating a passage to a court at the rear. The front wall was raised and a shop front with sash windows created in the late C19, perhaps when it was converted to commercial use. It was a watchmaker's shop in 1895.
Exterior
A 2-storey house of scribed roughcast walls and slate roof with added skylight. A panelled door is to the R, leading to an original passage, and a renewed horizontal sliding sash window is to the L. A similar sash window is in the upper storey.
The pebble-dashed rear has a large external stack partly taken down and capped. The passage is on its L side, above which is a 2-light casement.
Interior
The passage has a timber-framed partition with brick nogging. The roof retains a single queen-post truss abutting No 16. A lath and plaster partition is between the upper storeys of Nos 16a and 18, while in the lower storey a timber-framed partition is on a stone sill with sill beam, and retains wooden boarding.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of the few buildings in the walled town retaining vernacular detail from before the substantial redevelopment of Caernarfon beginning in the late C18, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
Nearby in the register
- Oriel ArfonDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 Palace StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Llys LlewelynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Palace VaultsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.