Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pwllheli Hospital (Former Workhouse Building)
Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Health and Welfare
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1989
- Community
- Pwllheli
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88836, -4.42221
- Cadw reference
- 4468
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated to W of the town centre; above the road with hillside to rear.
History
Opened in 1837 for the Pwllheli Poor Law Union formed on 3 June of that year comprising 32 parishes. Modern conversion to hospital use.
Exterior
Standard grid plan form with transverse and spinal ranges linked by central octagonal block. Symmetrical 2-storey 3+2+3-window coursed rubble front to main range, the central two bays of which are advanced under a gable with blind attic roundel; formerly with portico. Slate roofs with ventilators; horned 4-pane sashes with cement rendered margins. Below central windows is a broad lintel and simple cornice carried by two tapered piers. The recessed part-glazed door is flanked by two 12-pane sashes. 2-window extensions to either end, 2-storey to left with boarded doors and single storey to right with 4-panel door. The remainder of the structure is pebbledashes with modern additions. The 2-storey spinal range has mainly 4-pane sashes; 3-storey octagon and central part of transverse range. To E is a taller range containing a high segmental arched passage leading through to rear courtyard.
Reason for designation
Group value with Neigwl.
Nearby in the register
- NeigwlDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 Ala UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- 9 Ala UchafDomesticunder 1 mi
- Property adjoining to right of nos. 5 & 7Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.