Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Penlan House (Mathan House)
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
- 52.88933, -4.41680
- Cadw reference
- 4565
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
To left of the Old Town Hall; Market Square to rear.
History
Late C17/early C18; once the Eagles PH.
Exterior
2-storey group with scribed rendered fronts, 2-window to No 11, 1 window to No 13 and 3-window to No 15. Slate roofs, renewed to No 15; very tall stone chimney stacks to Nos 11 and 13, one with a stock brick flue; low pebbledashed stack to No 15; boarded eaves. Sash windows to 1st floor, 4-pane to Nos 11 and 13. Modern shop fronts; 6-panel door with splayed entrance to No 11. No 15 has modern glazed door at extreme right end and to splayed corner entrance with two cast iron pillars; shop front overlaps corner.
Pebbledash left end with modern window and chimney stack to rear. Slate roofed, 2-storey and attic cross range to rear, with splayed corner, facing Market Square. The gable at rear of No 15 has 4-pane attic window, otherwise modernised.
Largely modernised interior but retains original roof structure with chamfered purlins. Dog-leg stairs, the lower part of which is boarded in; turned balusters further up. Some panelled doors.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Brian HughesCommercialunder 1 mi
- 13 Penlan HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Siop GwilymCommercialunder 1 mi
- 11 Penlan HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.