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
26624
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/05/2002
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
Bron Eifion
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
South Road
Easting
248267
Northing
362265
Street Side
E
Location
Set back from the road and on the N side of a lane leading to St Helens Terrace.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in the early C19 and sited for views over the Seiont to Caernarfon Castle. The houses are shown on the 1834 town map. The bay windows and veranda are shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
Walls are mainly roughcast but original scribed stucco survives to the lower storey of the front. To the R is a canted bay with 16-pane horned sash window, while to the L is a 12-pane hornless sash window. The basement has 8-pane sash windows, which are horizontal-sliding on the L side and vertical-sliding to the R. The upper storey has 12-pane horned sashes. The rear has 12-pane sashes in the outer bays of the upper storey and lower R, and a small flat roof dormer to the R of centre. A tall parallel 3-storey rear wing has 4-pane sash windows.
Interior
The house retains its original central plan that comprised principal rooms on the ground floor and kitchen in the basement. A central stair hall has an open-well stair with wreathed hand rail, plain balusters and moulded tread ends. The room to the L has a slate chimneypiece and late C19 cast iron fireplace with decorative-tile panels.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 house retaining original character and detail that contributes to the strong Georgian tradition in Caernarfon and represents the C19 suburban expansion of the town consequent upon Caernarfon's growth in importance as a port.
Group Description
Bron Eifion and Sarn Helen
An attached and reflected pair of late Georgian 2-storey 3-bay houses with hipped slate roof on moulded eaves, with roughcast stacks to the centre and R, and pebble-dashed stack to the L. The front has a veranda on wooden posts with replaced roof, hipped to the R. Each house has a central fielded-panel door (with glazed mid and upper panels to Bryn Eifion) recessed within a round-headed arch which has thin Tuscan columns with moulded capitals, blank entablature and a neo-classical iron radial-glazed fanlight.
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