Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 Bridge Street
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 12 February 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 12 February 1952
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74382, -3.88543
- Cadw reference
- 4935
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 · 135 Harlech (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the street line adjoining the Stag Inn PH and stepped down from the Nat West Bank to left.
History
Dated 1773.
Exterior
2+ storey 6 window row. Coursed rubble masonry. Steeply pitched quarry slate roof, plain close eaves. Lateral stack to centre rear.
6 later? gabled dormers to top storey, rubble cheeks, laced valleys, close verges, bargeboards. Gables rendered, Timber lintels? 2 light casement windows, stone sills. Six small pane 2 light casement windows to lst floor. Stone lintels and sills.
Ground floor. Sash window to extreme left, modern glazed door adjoins to right, modern glazing to former Cl9 shop window adjoining. Sash window to extreme right, modern glazed door to left, slate tablet over reads - "JLE 1773"; further modern glazed door in former window opening to left. Stone lintels.
Broad projecting lateral chimney to rear elevation.Tall rectangular stack, water tabling. Later outshots to ground floor.
Interior
Interior layout altered. Interesting plan form with paired inglenook fireplaces in lateral stack (modern windows, doors etc cut through). Cambered bressumer beams. Use does not appear to have been domestic - possibly a cookshop. Transverse roughly chamfered ceiling beams.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Bridge StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- Stag InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Premises of Local CraftsCommercialunder 1 mi
- BridgendDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.