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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.