Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rooney Adams Antiques
Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pwllheli, Gwynedd, designated on 28 July 1989.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1989
- Community
- Pwllheli
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.88949, -4.41633
- Cadw reference
- 4571
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 134 Pwllheli (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Opposite the Old Town Hall on the corner of the lane leading to the car park and St Tudwals Terrace.
History
Ca 1800 late Georgian
Exterior
3-storey, 2-window coursed rubble front with slate roof and pebbledash stack to right hand gable end. 9 and 12 pane sash windows, with slate lintels to 1st floor. Good Victorian shop front with fluted fascia end brackets, ramped fascia, bracket cornice and end pilasters; brick stallriser. 18 pane shop window to right, window inserted into former central doorway and two doorways to left, that to the shop is in simple Art Nouveau style. Later cross range to left and oriel window with marginal glazing bars.
Interior
Interior has beamed ceilings and stone flagged floors. In large cellars the former holding cell, for the Old Town Hall opposite, is retained with the indented marks of 3 seats clearly definable. Segmental arch brick vaulted chamber may represent the end of a former underground passage connecting with the Old Town Hall and Gaol.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
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- Dental SurgeryHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- W.L.Jones ChemistCommercialunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.