Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Afallon, Marine Terrace
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
- 52.92241, -4.13098
- Cadw reference
- 85363
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 hillside to the W of and overlooking the harbour.
History
Marine Terrace is first shown in a view of Porthmadog by C.F. Williams, dated 1849, and is mentioned by Owen Morris in 1856. The terrace is shown on the 1871 Tremadog estate plan and 1888 Ordnance Survey. No 5 is mid C19 but has late C19 detail to the front.
Exterior
A symmetrical 2-storey 3-window house of whitened roughcast with rusticated quoin strips and panelled, pedimented architraves, slate roof with added skylights, and shared roughcast stack to the R. The central entrance has a porch with paired fluted columns and moulded cornice, to a half-glazed panel door incorporating coloured-glass panels, and overlight. The sides of the porch have been infilled with wooden latticework. In the lower storey the windows are 3-light casements of an unusual type with small-pane glazing above transoms. The upper storey has similar 2-light windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved town house retaining good later stucco work and distinctive fenestration, part of a well-preserved C19 terrace overlooking the harbour and the Cob.
Nearby in the register
- Wenallt, Marine TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Garthowen, Marine TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Aberteg, Marine TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Marine TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.