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Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tremadog, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, designated on 30 March 1951.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1951
- Locality
- Tremadog
- Community
- Porthmadog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93948, -4.14195
- Cadw reference
- 4461
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 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 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
One of a pair of houses prominently sited at the NW end of Market Square, on the corner with Dublin Street.
History
Tremadog was a town created by William Madocks (1773-1828) in the first decade of the C19 on reclaimed land known as Traeth Mawr, the estuary of Afon Glaslyn. It was originally intended to be a post town on a direct road between London and Dublin, via Porthdinllaen on the Lleyn peninsula, a project that in due course lost out to the Holyhead Road. Tremadog was laid out around a market square, with market hall, coaching inn, houses and shops, with a church and chapel just outside the centre. Building of this small planned development, as well as a separate woollen manufactory, began c1805 and was largely completed by the time Richard Colt Hoare described it in 1810. No 2 Market Square was part of this first phase of development. It was built as a pair with No 4, although details of the houses are now much different. No 2 was altered in the late C19 by introducing bay windows and later a porch.
Exterior
A 2-storey double-fronted house of pebble-dashed walls, renewed slate roof on wide boarded eaves, hipped to the R and in a single range with No 4, with pebble-dashed stack to the L and to the front slope of the R-hand (Dublin Street) elevation. An added central gabled porch is of coursed stone with impost band below a freestone round head, which has a replacement glazed door and plain overlight. Late C19 2-storey canted bay windows have replacement glazing. The R-hand corner is splayed. The 2-window elevation to Dublin Street has replacement glazing. The gable rear has an added lean-to conservatory.
The forecourt, added with the bay windows, has a slate plinth to iron railings with spear finials.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a prominent corner building retaining elements of its original form as part of the early development of Tremadog, though with good later C19 detail. An integral component of the planned town.
Nearby in the register
- TaleifionNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 9 Heol Dulyn (Dublin Street)Domesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Sgwar y Farchnad (Market Square)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Royal Madoc Arms HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.