Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
R.Gwynedd Evans & Son
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
- 52.88898, -4.41880
- Cadw reference
- 4484
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
On the northern corner with Ala Uchaf, formerly the site of the Pig Market.
History
Earlier C19 origins (as shown on John Wood’s 1834 map) with later C19 alterations and enlargement.
Exterior
3-storeys, with scribed render elevations - 2-window to Gaol Street, 1-window to splayed corner and 2+1-window to Ala Uchaf. Slate roof and red brick chimney stacks; sash windows without glazing bars. Overall Victorian timber shop front with ramped and lettered fascia, panelled pilaster strips rising from corbelled cill band and panelled stallriser with circular motif. Plate glass shop windows. Semicircular rere-arch to recessed entrance on splayed corner with half glazed double doors and coloured glass fanlight. 4-panel door at extreme left end to No 3 Ala Uchaf.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items in Gaol Street and Ala Uchaf.
Nearby in the register
- 7 Gaol StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 5 Gaol StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 3 Ala UchafCommercialunder 1 mi
- Siop GwalltCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.