Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sunday Newsagents
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
- 52.74248, -3.88466
- Cadw reference
- 5066
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 where Upper Smithfield Street opens out onto Smithfield Square.
History
Early Cl9
Exterior
Irregular, angular corner building, gable end on to the square. l+ storey, l window. Coursed rubble masonry. Steeply pitched quarry slate roof, oversailing eaves, deep verges, plain bargeboards. Stone stack to rear pitch.
l6 pane sash window to gable end. Slate lintel. Left corner canted to follow line of street, shallow upper sash to 9 pane window set under eaves. Continuous modern fascia over ground floor. Modern shop windows to Upper Smithfield Street and Smithfield Square, modern door.
Reason for designation
Group value with listed items on Smithfield Square and Upper Smithfield Street.
Nearby in the register
- Dily's MeredithDomesticunder 1 mi
- Siop EsgidiauCommercialunder 1 mi
- The BakeryCommercialunder 1 mi
- Thresher's Wine MerchantsCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.