Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
16 Kings Head 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
- 52.89018, -4.41671
- Cadw reference
- 4527
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 slight slope from High Street up to Lleiniau; No 22 slightly stepped forward.
History
Probably mid C18 with ca 1900 alterations.
Exterior
Group of single storey and attic houses with mainly 2-window fronts, pebbledash except for No 14 which is rubble. Nos 20 and 22 were combined to form one house. Steep slate roofs, heavily grouted to No 14, and with swept roof dormers. Mostly tall rubble chimney stacks with weathercoursing; brick to No 14 where the dormers are boarded up and the plinth removed - large boarded double doors. Nos 16 and 18 have small pane metal frame windows with lugged architraves to ground floor, also to No 22 which has small pane sash windows; decorative framing to upper part. Half glazed doors.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items in King’s Head Street.
Nearby in the register
- 14 Kings Head StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 18 Kings Head StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 20 Kings Head StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 24 Kings Head StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.