House and Canolfan Newyddian Beaumaris News Centre

Cadw's description

Location

On the W corner of the junction between Castle Street and Church Street.

History

Probably built in the late C18 and shown on the 1829 town plan as a house. In the third quarter of the C19 its exterior was remodelled when the ground floor was converted to a shop.

Exterior

A late Georgian style 2½-storey 3-bay shop and house on a corner site, of scribed roughcast walls painted cream, steep slate roof and square roughcast stack to the R. Quoins have faceted rustication. In the lower storey the house entrance is on the L side, in a rusticated surround with entablature and moulded cornice. The door, of 2 narrow panels, has a plain overlight. The shop has a 5-light window with round arches on slender colonnettes with moulded capitals. Spandrels have foliage in relief. The fascia has an added painted sign board and cornice, between end brackets on consoles. Further R the cornice is wrapped around the angle, where the splayed entrance has replacement half-glazed doors and round-headed overlight with foliage spandrels, and is flanked by a narrow panel in each elevation. In the Church Street elevation is a 2-light shop window with similar detail to the Castle Street front.

In the upper storey the windows have moulded architraves. The Castle Street front has 16-pane hornless sash windows, of which the central is offset to the L side. A sill band has a Greek key frieze, which is continued to the Church Street elevation but without the key pattern. Two gabled roof dormers have 2-light windows, between which is an added skylight. In the Church Street elevation is a 16-pane sash window on the L side. On the R side are 2 superimposed stair windows, of which the lower is a 16-pane sash window that breaks through the sill band, and the upper is a small-pane fixed window.

The rear has a replacement raked roof dormer.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reason for designation

Listed for its special architectural interest as a house and shop retaining definite C19 character and detail, including a fine and well-preserved shop front, in a building of earlier origin, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Castle Street.