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The Cader Shop

Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 19 June 1990.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of The Cader Shop, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Commercial
Date of designation
19 June 1990
Community
Dolgellau
Unitary authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.74346, -3.88559
Cadw reference
4937

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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Cadw's description

On the street line opposite Waterloo Street.

Cl8. 3 storey, 3 window. Random rubble masonry. Gently pitched slate roof, plain close eaves. (Raised from 2+ storeys, with dormers formerly to 2nd floor). Later stone stack to right, water tabling.
2 light casements, 4 panes, set under eaves to former 2nd floor dormers. 2álight, 6 pane, casement windows to lst floor; stone lintels. Brace plate to left.
Cl9 shopfront to ground floor right. Cornice over plain fascia. Sunk panelled pilasters flank doorway to left and 2 light shop window to right, rubble stallriser. Modern window adjoins to left - former doorway. Modern 3-light shop window to left.

Group value.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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