Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty Crwn (The Lock-up)
Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 3 April 1951
- Locality
- Barmouth Harbour
- Community
- Barmouth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.71926, -4.05249
- Cadw reference
- 4898
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 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Standing about 40m to the W of Ty Gwyn, behind Abermaw Terrace, and in a recent landscaped setting.
History
Built on the instructions of the county's magistrates as a lock-up for drunks and petty offenders. The building contract was given to Thomas Rees, Jones James and Rees Owen of Dolgellau and is dated 12th November 1833; their fee was ú55.
Exterior
Single storey; circular plan. Of rough dressed stone with aconical slate roof rising to a central cylindrical moulded stack. There are 2 rooms, each served by a plain flat-arched entrance with 2 barred slit-windows flanking and set high up.
Interior
Within each room is a corner privy and presumably a fireplace (this latter feature is currently obscured: autumn 1994).
Reason for designation
An interesting, unaltered centralised lock-up of considerable local historic interest.
Nearby in the register
- Ty Gwyn with Davey Jones' Locker CafeCommercialunder 1 mi
- St David's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Walsal House (The Old Tea Rooms)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Attached Cottage tot he rear of Walsal HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.