Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Belle Vue, including forecourt wall and railings
Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, designated on 26 September 2005.
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
- 52.92216, -4.13103
- Cadw reference
- 85357
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
The N end of a row of 3 houses set back from and above the level of Garth Road, overlooking the harbour and the Cob.
History
Built in the later C19 as a terrace of 3 sustantial town houses.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 1-2 Belle Vue.
A pair of 3-storey 2-bay late-Victorian classical style houses of rendered walls, slate roof on projecting eaves and hipped to the R, and rendered stacks. Both have the entrance in the R-hand bay, comprising recessed panel doors with half-lit side panels and overlights. Ground-floor openings have cornices on moulded consoles, and middle-storey windows have hood moulds. No 1 has 12-pane sash windows, No 2 has 2-pane sash windows. The 3-window R end wall (No 1) has small-pane sash windows and a small added porch.
The forecourt has scribed roughcast revetment walls and iron railings, which continues around the side of No 1 (railings to No 2 are largely obscured).
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved town house retaining definite late C19 character, one of a well-preserved pair of houses overlooking the harbour and the Cob.
Nearby in the register
- Belle Vue, including forecourt wall and railingsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Aberteg, Marine TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Rockcliff, including forecourt railings and gateNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Garthowen, Marine TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.