Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Golden Fleece
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
- 52.93923, -4.14179
- Cadw reference
- 85353
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 W side of Market Square.
History
Tremadog was a town created by William Madocks (1773-1828) in the first decade of the C19 on reclaimed land known as Traeth Mawr, the estuary of Afon Glaslyn. It was originally intended to be a post town on a direct road between London and Dublin, via Porthdinllaen on the Lleyn peninsula, a project that in due course lost out to the Holyhead Road. Tremadog was laid out around a market square, with market hall, coaching inn, houses and shops, with a church and chapel just outside the centre. Building of this small planned development, as well as a separate woollen manufactory, began c1805 and was largely completed by the time Richard Colt Hoare described it in 1810. No 8 Market Square, built as a public house, was part of this first phase of development and was built as a pair with No 6. It was known as the Golden Fleece from at least 1844.
Exterior
A 2-storey double-fronted public house of large roughly coursed and squared blocks of quarried stone with large slate-stone lintels, slate roof on projecting eaves, small skylights and stone end stacks. Openings have raised cement surrounds. The central entrance has a fielded-panel door. Windows are replaced in original openings. Behind is an added 2-storey rear wing.
Interior
The interior retains its original 2-unit plan, with chamfered joists. Fireplaces have been infilled. Behind the L-hand room is a vaulted beer cellar from where beer was served through a hatch.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding window alteration, for its special architectural interest as a public house, which retains significant elements of its original form (including use of local stone and interior layout), as part of the early development of the town. An integral component of the planned town.
Nearby in the register
- 6 Sgwar y Farchnad (Market Square)Domesticunder 1 mi
- 10 Sgwar y Farchnad (Market Square)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- Y Sgwar (The Square Restaurant)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Stiwdio Harddwch (One-to-One Beauty Studio)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.