Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Siop Hughes
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
- Town
- Dolgellau
- Community
- Dolgellau
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.74309, -3.88532
- Cadw reference
- 5058
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 at the corner of Queen's Square with Bridge Street.
History
Mid Cl9 with earlier origins.
Exterior
2+ storey, 2 window shop. Coursed rubble masonry. Moderately pitched slate roof, oversailing eaves. Stone stack, water tabling.
Gabled, slate hung dormers set wholly in roof. Bargeboards, Victorian sash windows. Similar larger windows to lst floor, stone lintels.
Broad Victorian shopfront to ground floor. Dentil cornice over plain fascia. Paired fluted brackets over paired sunk panelled pilasters. Canted recessed central entrance. Deep rectangular fanlight, modern door. 2 light shop windows, plastered stallrisers.
Rear range, coursed rubble. Slate roof, close verges. Stone stack, water tabling. Eaves raised in Cl9.
Reason for designation
Included for group value and shopfront.
Nearby in the register
- T.H.Roberts, IronmongerCommercialunder 1 mi
- R & G Wynne WilliamsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Royal Ship Hotel including former stableyardDomesticunder 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.