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
21859
Building Number
57
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/05/1999
Date of Amendment
28/05/1999
Name of Property
57 Stryd Fawr (High Street)
Address
57 Stryd Fawr (High Street)
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanberis
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Llanberis
Easting
257745
Northing
360306
Street Side
W
Location
Located on the west side of Stryd Fawr (High Street) in the centre of Llanberis.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
One of a pair of shops, probably built in the 1860s, to serve the emergence of Llanberis as a small town, associated with the local quarrying industry and simultaneously as an important centre for tourism and mountaineering, the attractions of which encouraged people to settle here.
Exterior
Belongs to a group 57 & 59 Stryd Fawr (High Street.)
Shops with domestic accommodation above and partly on the ground floor to No.57. Two storeys, right part slightly projecting and of 3 bays forming No.57, the left of a wide single bay forming No.59. Rendered rubblestone with plaster quoins to angles and to centre and right first-floor windows of No.57; slate roof, hipped to right with rendered ridge stack to left and integral stack to left gable end. 12-paned sashes to left on ground floor of No.57 and to first floor, except above shop-front of No.57 where of 9 panes. Victorian shop-front to No.57 has pilasters to cast-iron shop-front itself and to C19 half-glazed door to domestic accommodation, the whole contained under a moulded fascia with pedimented consoles; the shop-front has slender colonettes, a frieze and rosettes to the spandrels; recessed splayed entrance with black and white tile floor and C20 glazed door under original ogee-shaped overlight with scrolled segmental pediment above the door. No.59 has bowed late C20 shop-front.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included (notwithstanding C20 alterations), as a distinctively urban building still within the Georgian tradition, and retaining a particularly fine Victorian shop front.
Group Description
57 & 59 Stryd Fawr (High Street)
Shops with domestic accommodation above and partly on the ground floor to No.57. Two storeys, right part slightly projecting and of 3 bays forming No.57, the left of a wide single bay forming No.59. Rendered rubblestone with plaster quoins to angles and to centre and right first-floor windows of No.57; slate roof, hipped to right with rendered ridge stack to left and integral stack to left gable end. 12-paned sashes to left on ground floor of No.57 and to first floor, except above shop-front of No.57 where of 9 panes. Victorian shop-front to No.57 has pilasters to cast-iron shop-front itself and to C19 half-glazed door to domestic accommodation, the whole contained under a moulded fascia with pedimented consoles; the shop-front has slender colonettes, a frieze and rosettes to the spandrels; recessed splayed entrance with black and white tile floor and C20 glazed door under original ogee-shaped overlight with scrolled segmental pediment above the door. No.59 has bowed late C20 shop-front.
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