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
26634
Building Number
15
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/05/2002
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
Caer Mena Including Forecourt Railings
Address
15 Church Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247748
Northing
362890
Street Side
W
Location
Set back from the street behind railings.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
11-15 Church Street was built in the early C20 on the site of the former North Wales Training College, and incorporated some of the earlier fabric and its overall plan. The college was built in the third quarter of the C19 and is shown on the 1890 Ordnance Survey. It was subsequently an Intermediate school. The houses are first shown on the 1918 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A house of 3 symmetrical bays and 3 storeys with basement, of painted and scribed roughcast walls, slate roof on moulded and corbelled eaves, and with roughcast end stacks. The central doorway has a panelled door with inserted glazing to the panels. The outer bays have 2-storey bay windows on iron brackets, articulated by thin attached colonnettes, blank panels between storeys and hipped roofs with iron cresting. In the lower storey the windows have leaded lights with coloured glass above the transoms and sash windows to the sides, while in the middle storey are cross windows incorporating casements. The central bay has a 4-pane sash window to the middle storey, which also has moulded bands below the sill and lintel level. In the upper storey each bay has a 4-pane sash window under a moulded cornice on corbels, with string course above. The basement, probably the fabric of the earlier school, has small-pane sash windows flanking a central doorway.
The forecourt has iron railings on a dwarf wall, with decorative finials and pyramid finials to the main stanchions. Double entrance gates and a basement gate to the R have similar detail.
The rear has a lower wing with hipped roof.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a high-quality early C20 terrace retaining fine original detail, which completes a good C19 domestic group in Church Street.
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