Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
3 Sgwar y Farchnad (Market Square)
Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tremadog, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, designated on 30 March 1951.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1951
- Locality
- Tremadog
- Community
- Porthmadog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93963, -4.14127
- Cadw reference
- 85336
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 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
A terraced house on the E side of Market Square.
History
Tremadog was the creation of William Madocks (1773-1828), the first phase of which was built in the first decade of the C19 century. No 3 Market Square was added in the small original gap between Nos 1 and 5 (corresponding with Dublin Lane on the W side of Market Square) in the first half of the C19. It was part of a joint premises with No 1, and is shown as such on the 1871 Tremadog estate plan. In 1858 it became the Madoc Printing Office, established by Robert Isaac Jones, 'Alltud Eifion' (1815-1905), who published the literary and antiquarian journal 'Y Brython' from here, 1858-63. It was latterly a greengrocers' shop.
Exterior
A small 2-storey 2-window house of roughly coursed and squared blocks of quarried stone with large lintels in the lower storey, slate roof on projecting boarded eaves, and stone stack to the R. The entrance on the L side has a replacement boarded door and narrow overlight. Windows are 4-pane horned sashes, all of different sizes.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a small C19 dwelling, using local stone, retaining definite C19 character, and as an integral component of the planned town.
Nearby in the register
- Tremadog War Memorial InstituteDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Market SquareNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Union InnNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- House, including steps to R-handNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.