Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 Red Lion Street
Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tywyn, Gwynedd, designated on 30 March 1951.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1951
- Locality
- Tywyn
- Town
- Tywyn
- Community
- Tywyn
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.58747, -4.08420
- Cadw reference
- 4649
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 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 · 149 Barmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Fronting the street opposite a sharp bend in the road.
History
Built as one of a pair with No 5 in the early C19 and shown on the 1841 Tithe map.
Exterior
A late-Georgian 3-storey 3-window house of distinctive large coursed blocks of unworked rubble stone with stone lintels, beneath a slate roof on overhanging eaves, with stone end stacks, shared to the L. The central entrance has a replacement panel door, flanked by replacement 12-pane horned sash windows. Middle and upper storey have small-pane top-hung casement windows inserted into original openings.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding unsympathetic window replacement, as a late Georgian house retaining definite early C19 character, and for its contribution with other buildings in Corbet Square, Red Lion Street and Maengwyn Street, to the historical integrity of the old town centre.
Nearby in the register
- Stanley HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Somerset House and house adjoining to its LNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- White Hall HotelNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 5 Maengwyn StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.