Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nigel J. Elson, Roofing Repairs
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
- 52.74328, -3.88432
- Cadw reference
- 4994
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 line 50m in from Smithfield Street.
History
Late Cl9 former shoemakers and cobblers workshop.
Exterior
3 storey, 2 window. Snecked masonry front. Moderately pitched slate roof, plain eaves, exposed purlins, bargeboards.
Single vertically paned sash window to gable, stone lintel. 2 similar windows to lst floor. Sympathetic modern sign bracket. 3 light shop windows to ground floor, stone lintels. Central doorway, stone lintel. 4áflush panel double doors, upper panels glazed.
Good, 3 window elevation to left side. Coursed rubble masonry. Advanced bay to left. Raking dormer to 2nd floor left. 2 small, 2 light windows set under eaves to right. 3 vertically paned sash windows to lst floor, stone lintels. Similar to left in advanced bay with doorway to right, stone lintels. Further vertically paned sash to right.
Right side elevation. Small window to right under eaves.
2 fixed light 4 pane windows to lst floor, stone lintels. Similar to former doorway at ground floor left.
Interior
Interior retains transverse ceiling beams, staircase etc.
Reason for designation
A good example of a late Cl9 craft workshop.
Group value with former Agricultural Merchants opposite.
Nearby in the register
- Former Agricultural MerchantsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Governor House of the Old Gas WorksDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Waterloo StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Retort House of the Old Gas Works (Now Gas Showroom)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.