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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
- 52.74274, -3.88513
- Cadw reference
- 5053
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 adjoining The Free Library.
History
Early Cl7.
Exterior
Originally two separate houses. l+ storey, 5 window range with later rear range to left end. Rubble masonry, pebbledashed to street elevations. Steeply pitched slate roof, oversailing eaves, close verges. Original square, tall stone stack to left end, water tabling.
5 hipped dormers to lst floor. 2 light casement windows.
Shallow upper sash to 9 pane window at ground floor right, former doorway to immediate left, now window with Victorian sash. Similar sash windows flank present doorway to left of front elevation, that to extreme left larger.
SW corner of building curves to follow street line. Rear range of l+ástoreys facing next stretch of street. Two hipped dormers to lst floor, that to right adjoined to gable end of front range. 2 light casement windows. Victorian sash to ground floor left over cellar opening, doorway to right.
Interior
Interior below street level. Stout chamfered transverse ceiling beams and fireplace bressumer. Collared roof trusses. More detail obscured by later work.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items on Mill Street.
Nearby in the register
- Midland BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Forden HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Central Buildings (formerly known as Meyrick House)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Bodfan, to rear of R & G Wynne WilliamsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.