Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Aber Cafe
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
- 52.74385, -3.88476
- Cadw reference
- 5074
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 old Shire Hall.
History
Early Cl9.
Exterior
2 storey, 5 window block. Formerly 3 houses. Coursed rubble masonry. Moderately pitched slate roof, plain eaves, close verges. 4ávelux skylights to front pitch. Rectangular stone stack to left, square stack set forward of ridge to right; water tabling, moulded caps.
Victorian sash windows to lst floor, stone lintels. Group of 4 brace discs to left. Later Cl9 shopfront to ground floor left, nameboard and plain outer pilasters. Shop window to left, modern glazing, rubble stallriser, pair of doors to right. 2 Victorian sashes to centre, both former doorways. Stone lintels. Simple cornice over Victorian sash shop window to extreme right.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- BridgendDomesticunder 1 mi
- BridgendCommercialunder 1 mi
- BridgendDomesticunder 1 mi
- County HallCivilunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.