Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
35 High Street
Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1989
- Community
- Pwllheli
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88999, -4.41543
- Cadw reference
- 4492
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
Set into a row of frontages in the eastern arm of the High Street; stepped up from adjoining properties.
History
Shown on 1889 OS map.
Exterior
Symmetrical 3-storey, 6-window scribed render front with considerable classical embellishment. Slate roof and red brick chimney stacks; rusticated quoins, deep dentil cornice, cill bands and painted brick plinth. Mostly 4-pane sash windows. 2nd floor has 1+2+1-windows with architraves, bracket cills and keystones; twinned windows to 1st floor with flanking - Corinthian pilasters crowned by heavily dentilled pediments, semicircular to central pair; twinned to ground floor with deep ornamented keystones. Twinned semicircular arched entrances to centre also with keystones and Corinthian pilasters; stepped recesses and 4-panel half-glazed doors, that to left has coloured glass fanlight.
Interior
Tiled outer halls. Simple ornament to staircase with Gothic panelled newels.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- 33 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Crown HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Alliance & Leicester and Abby National Building SocietiesCommercialunder 1 mi
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.