Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bodfan, to rear of R & G Wynne Williams
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 June 1990
- Town
- Dolgellau
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74289, -3.88548
- Cadw reference
- 5057
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 on an island site where Queen's Square meets Eldon Square.
History
Early C19.
Exterior
3 storey and cellar, 2 window. Coursed rubble masonry. Moderately pitched slate roof, hipped to S. Plain eaves. Stone stack, water tabling.
2 Victorian sash windows to 2nd storey, stone lintels and sills. Similar deeper windows to lst floor. Late Cl9 doorcase to ground floor left, dentil cornice with ironwork cresting, brackets, sunk panelled pilasters. Rectangular fanlight over part-glazed door. Modern window to left. Modern shopfront to right beyond evidence of blocked doorway.
Similar 2 window 2nd and lst floor elevation to Eldon Square over continuous modern shopfront.
1 window elevation to Mill Street. Victorian sashes to 2nd and lst floor. Later inserted diamond window alongside to left on lst floor.
Rectangular bay window to ground floor left. Oversailing hipped slate roof, sunk panelled pilasters, Victorian sashes. Iron railings with dogbars and gate to cellar stairwell at right.
3 storey, 2 window house set back to left forms part of Mill Street elevation. Deep plastered eaves. Victorian sash windows, stone lintels. Ground floor openings offset to right. Art Nouveau glass to door and
window at lst floor left. Railed forecourt and cellar stairwell.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- R & G Wynne WilliamsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Central Buildings (formerly known as Meyrick House)Commercialunder 1 mi
- London House (Recently Barclays Bank)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Midland BankCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.