Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Courtenay's Bistro
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, designated on 29 May 1968.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 May 1968
- Locality
- Caernarfon
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13877, -4.27379
- Cadw reference
- 3924
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 terraced overlooking Slate Quay, at the junction with Little Chapel Street.
History
7-9 Segontium Terrace was built in the early C19 probably as a single development and is shown on the 1810 and 1834 town maps, but the houses never had a unified design. 5-9 Segontium Terrace represents the early development of middle-class urban housing outside the town centre and the site was chosen for its view over the Afon Seiont at a time before the full development of Slate Quay as a port.
Exterior
A Georgian house of 3 storeys and 3 bays, with a rendered front and slate roof. Openings are offset to the L side. The central doorway has a doorcase with fluted pilasters, and plain consoles to an entablature. A fielded panel door has radial-glazed lights. The central bay has blind windows, while the outer bays have windows replaced in original openings and are shorter in the upper storey.
Iron railings in front of the basement steps have spear finials. In the basement is a small-pane window to the R and blocked opening to the L, and a doorway in the central bay. The rear wall is roughcast.
Reason for designation
Listed as an ambitious urban development prominently sited above Slate Quay. Notwithstanding some loss of its original unified design, the terrace contributes to the strong Georgian tradition in Caernarfon and documents the growing prosperity of the town in the early C19 in the wake of the development of Caernarfon as a major N Wales port.
Nearby in the register
- 8 Segontium Terrace, including forecourt railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 7 Segontium TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Segontium TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- South portal of former railway tunnel beneath Castle SquareTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.