Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Whitehall
Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1989
- Community
- Pwllheli
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88931, -4.41888
- Cadw reference
- 4481
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
At the top of the street at the cross-roads with the High Street, set in the slope. Formerly the toll house.
History
1818 rebuilding and enlargement of an earlier structure probably C17/C18.
Exterior
2-storey painted coursed rubble 3-window front with plinth. Slate roof, wide boarded eaves and skylights; rubble end chimney stacks heightened in brick. A splayed corner has been created at a later date. 16-pane sash windows to 1st floor and C20 3-light bar windows below flanking round arched central entrance with deeply recessed doorway; 6 panel door. Cellar openings, boarded to left and barred to right. Set back to left is lower 2-storey range with similar materials; 3 light window to 1st floor and horned 12-pane sashes below. Further range behind. The right hand gable end facing Lleyn Street has similar window arrangements to that on the front; 1-window cross range beyond with small pane sash over glazed splayed bay with dentil cornice.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Lleyn StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- AnchorageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Parry & SonsCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 Gaol StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.