Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Agricultural Merchants
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
- 52.74344, -3.88435
- Cadw reference
- 4993
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid 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
Gable end on to the street some 50m in from Smithfield Street, stepped down from the adjoining terrace.
History
Late Cl9 with early C20 alterations.
Exterior
Commercial building with warehouses to rear. 3 storey, 2 gabled bays. Broad stock brick bay to left, snecked masonry to narrower bay at right. Slate roofs, bargeboards, Victorian sash windows to gables, cambered brick voussoirs to left, stone lintel to right. Plain cornice over shop windows to lst floor of brick bay. Plain pilasters. 3 light shop windows flank similar 2 light window to centre. Victorian sash window to stone bay to right. Shop front to ground floor of brick bay. Blind box missing, plain pilasters. 3 light shop windows flank central doorway. Double 4 flush panel doors. Similar doorway to stone bay to right, stone lintel.
Good rear elevation to Smithfield Lane. 3 storey 2 gabled elevation. Coursed rubble masonry. Steeply pitched slate roofs, close verges. Loading door to 2nd floor right; plank door, stone lintel. Gabled winch hood over, slate hung. Victorian sash window to left hand bay. Loading doors to each bay at lst floor; plank doors, stone lintels. Broad doorway to ground floor right. Plank double doors with vents to top. Deep stone lintel. Similar to left hand bay, with window to extreme left. Stone lintel and sill, modern glazing.
Reason for designation
Group value with listed former cobblers workshop on Glyndwr Street and former gasworks on Cae Tanws Bach.
Nearby in the register
- Nigel J. Elson, Roofing RepairsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Governor House of the Old Gas WorksDomesticunder 1 mi
- Retort House of the Old Gas Works (Now Gas Showroom)Commercialunder 1 mi
- 1 Waterloo StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.