Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Star House
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
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74194, -3.88520
- Cadw reference
- 5036
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
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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the street line immediately to N of Ebenezer Chapel.
Exterior
4 storey and cellar, 3 window building. The upper 2 storeys originally loon rooms, and later storerooms. Left hand corner is canted back. Coursed rubble masonry. Moderately pitched quarry slate roof, cavetto eaves cornice, close verges. Contemporary? brick stacks, water tabling.
Victorian sash windows to 3rd and 2nd floors, stone lintels. Loading door over a sash window to canted corner, (window reduced in size from former doorway). 3 Victorian sashes to lst floor, stone lintels. Similar window to ground floor left over cellar doorway. Central doorway, Cl9 door, 2 of 3 upper panels glazed. Slate tablet over door inscribed: "Built by DPM l800".
Later Cl9 shop built out in brick from right side of front elevation. Plain shop windows flank central doorway. Flat roof with interlaced Cl9 ironwork cresting.
Stone staircase with stone "bridge" gave access to 2nd floor at rear for loomworkers.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Cosy Takeaway Fish & ChipsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Ebenezer Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Plas Newydd (Premises of Y Ewpwrdd Cornel)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Mervinian HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.