Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former police Station
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, designated on 12 February 1952.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 12 February 1952
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74222, -3.88780
- Cadw reference
- 5004
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 street line near where Heol-y-Capel opens onto Y Lawnt.
History
Mid Cl9.
Exterior
2 storey, 3 window building with parallel rear range. Squared, coursed rubble masonry with freestone dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof, hipped to left but truncated on right where later house abutts. Stone stack to left end. Similar to rear range with completed hipped roof. Ovolo moulded eaves cornice, rusticated quoins, plinth.
Round arched windows to lst floor. Rusticated architraves. l6 pane Gothic interlaced sashes. Similar to ground floor flank central doorway. Gothic fanlight over door of 6 fielded panels.
Rear range incorporating cells plainer, random coursed rubble masonry, no eaves cornice. Rusticated round-arched architraves to l2 pane sashes, no interlacing. Similar window to flank.
High rubble wall at rear, flagstone capped, encloses small triangular yard.
Interior
Interior largely modernised for office accommodation.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items on Y Lawnt.
Nearby in the register
- 3 Y LawntDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Y LawntDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Y LawntDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Y LawntDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.