Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
15348
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/12/1994
Date of Amendment
12/12/1994
Name of Property
Morannedd Cafe
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Criccieth
Town
Locality
Criccieth
Easting
250584
Northing
338136
Street Side
Location
At the eastern end of the Esplanade, close to the railway line.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Plans were submitted for the building of this beach cafe in 1948, with Clough Williams Ellis as consulting architect.
Exterior
Concrete construction with flat concrete roof reinforced with iron and carried with a bold overhand on a series of cast iron brackets. Single storeyed, the building is boomerang shaped, with the entrance in the centre, between the curved wings. Paired glazed doorways with glass-brick windows between and above them. Each wing has wide full-height windows articulated by a grid of metal glazing bars in the elevation facing the sea and curving round each curved end. The straighter rear walls are lit from windows set high up beneath the eaves.
Interior
Reason for designation
A distinctive sea-side pavillion which is a rare essay in the International modern style by one of the leading Welsh architects of the C20.
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