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
26518
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
Caffi Maes
Address
4 Castle Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Caernarfon
Easting
247899
Northing
362710
Street Side
N
Location
In a prominently sited row of frontages on Castle Square.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built in the late C18 or early C19 and shown on the 1810 town plan. It was originally a single property with No 3 and is shown as such on the 1834 and 1852 town plans, but its present sudivision had occurred by the time of the 1888 Ordnance Survey, when it was adapted fo commercial use. In 1895 No 4 was a ironmonger's store.
Exterior
House and shop forming part of a terrace. 3 storeys and 2 bays, with a scribed roughcast front and graded slate roof. Closely spaced horned sash windows are 16-pane in the middle storey and 12-pane in the upper storey. The lower storey shop front is late C20. The rear is rubble stone and retains small-pane sash windows.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a late Georgian terrace retaining original detail that contributes to the strong Georgian tradition in Caernarfon, and with other associated listed items for its contribution to the setting of Caernarfon Castle.
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