Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Neuadd Idris (former Market Hall)
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 19 June 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Locality
- Dolgellau
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74241, -3.88590
- Cadw reference
- 4963
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 corner where Finsbury Square meets Eldon Square.
History
l870. Market Hall with Assembly Rooms over.
Exterior
2 storey, 4 window. Snecked rubble masonry. Moderately pitched slate roof, hipped to Eldon Square. Deep boarded eaves on consoles with eaves band. Vent gablet set into roof at front. l6 pane fixed light windows to lst floor. Rock faced freestone rusticated architraves, cambered arches. 4 arch arcade to ground floor. Voussoirs on freestone arch rings. Impost and plinth bands. Arch to extreme right broader with later inner doors giving access to stairs. Similar 6 window and 6 arch elevation to Finsbury Square with tympanum of arch to extreme left blocked. Iron railings link arches of arcade. Gabled elevation to rear. Small stone stack. Bargeboards. Modern glazing to windows, plain rock faced freestone architraves.
Interior
Interior of market hall converted to individual shop units.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Eldon RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- Eldon RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- Eldon RowDomesticunder 1 mi
- MaesgwynCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.