Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 High Street
Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 1 June 1949
- Community
- Pwllheli
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88974, -4.41422
- Cadw reference
- 4503
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 in the slope at the bottom of the street, Penmount Chapel to left. Formerly known as Strand Street; the earliest part of the town.
History
Ca 1800.
Exterior
Group of 2-storey 1-window coursed rubble fronts; Nos 89 and 10 and 12 and 14 are reflected pairs; the left hand half have cellar windows. Slate roofs and rubble chimney stacks with massive weathercourses, stack removed to No 12. Slate stone lintels to ground floor form a near continuous band. Nos 4 and 6 retain sash windows - otherwise modern; blocked window openings over doorways to Nos 6 and 8 and another over 10 and 12. Mostly 6-pane doors, modern to No 4 and half glazed to No 14 beside shop window.
Rubble left gable end, pebbledash right end; rubble, cement render and slate hung rear elevations mostly with dormers; cross range to No 14.
Reason for designation
Group value with Penmount Square and Nos 18 to 22.
Nearby in the register
- 4 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Penmount SquareDomesticunder 1 mi
- 10 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.