Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Shop on corner with Springfield Sreet
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74188, -3.88628
- Cadw reference
- 4985
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
On the SW corner of Springfield Street with Finsbury Square.
History
Late Cl9.
Exterior
3 storey and cellar 4 window former shop with advanced 3 sided canted bay to left. Rubble masonry. Gently pitched slate roof, hipped over advanced bay. Boxed eaves. Stone stacks, water tabling.
Victorian sash windows set under eaves to 2nd floor. 3 to sides of advanced bay, l to right. Stone lintels. Similar, deeper windows to lst floor.
Good Victorian shopfront to ground floor of advanced bay. Dentil cornice with plain entablature overall. 3 light shop window to Springfield Street, flanking pilasters with keel moulded ribs. Basement opening below. Similar 2 light window to Finsbury Square. Central doorway, pilasters, nameboard over. Recessed entry with stone steps down to street. Slate treads. Plain rectangular fanlight over modern door. Domestic doorway to extreme right, stone lintel. Rectangular fanlight over 4 panel door (upper panels glazed). Slate steps down to street.
3 storey l window house adjoins to right. Similar construction. Modern dormer to roof. l tier of Victorian sash windows to right, (stepped down from those of adjoining shop). Stone lintels. Doorway offset to left. Stone lintel, modern door.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- House adjoining to right of former shop on corner with Springfield StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-boxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Cottage adjoining service range of Plas GwynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Storehouse opposite Cae FfynonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.