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.
Date of Designation
25/04/1997
Date of Amendment
25/04/1997
Name of Property
11 John Street
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
Situated at upper end of winding street above High Street some 70m N of Capel Bethesda.
History
Earlier C19 pair of houses, possibly originally built as a block of four in a form of back-to-back plan called cluster housing.
Exterior
Whitewashed with C20 door. Side house has 4-pane sash each floor and added porch obscuring door.
Reason for designation
Included for the unusual house plan, an early type of industrial housing.
Group Description
10 and 11 John Street
Whitewashed or colourwashed rubble stone with slate roof, hipped at front to very long rendered stack, perhaps of some 8 shafts. Two-storey, double fronted with two doors in centre and first floor blank plaque above, one window range of plate glass sashes each side. Side walls are blank adjoining main front then have one-window range house with outer door, perhaps initally separate houses but now incorporated with nos 10 & 11.
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