Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Y Pisgotwr (The Fisherman)
Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 26 September 2005
- Locality
- Porthmadog
- Town
- Porthmadog
- Community
- Porthmadog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92654, -4.13059
- Cadw reference
- 85297
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
On the corner of High Street and Snowdon Street.
History
Nos 1-3 Snowdon Street were built in the mid C19 and shown on the 1871 Tremadog estate survey and 1888 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 1-3 Snowdon Street.
A 3-storey range of large blocks of roughly dressed slate-stone, painted white in the middle and upper storeys, under a slate roof, which is hipped to the splayed corner; blocking course to corner and the High Street elevation. No 1 is a shop and house, the lower storey of which has a continuous boarded fascia and deep bracketed cornice. Its entrance is in the splayed corner, which has replacement glazed doors, above which the wall is faced in white glazed tiles and a large painted sign. In the single-window High Street elevation is a replacement shop window in an earlier opening, 4-pane horned sash window in the middle storey, and in the upper storey a round-headed 4-pane sash window under a gable. In the 3-window Snowdon Street elevation are 12-pane hornless sash windows in the middle storey and similar 9-pane windows in the upper storey. The lower storey has original openings: a replacement half-glazed door and overlight, a window to its L and shop window to its R, both replacements.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a prominently sited pair of shops and houses in the town centre retaining definite C19 character and original detail.
Nearby in the register
- Jessie's Deli and houseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Capel Salem, including attached Sunday School, forecourt gates and railings and hall to rearReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- HSBC BankNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Browsers Bookshop and houseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.