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
3844
Building Number
3
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/06/1963
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
3 Castle Street
Address
3 Castle Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247814
Northing
362800
Street Side
E
Location
In a row of frontages near the N end of the street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A mid C18 town house asymmetrically planned with entrance hall to the L and stair to its rear. It was associated with the Foxwist family and was said to have had a mantelpiece in the upper storey engraved 'Ll F 1777'. As the property of the Reverend Foxwist, the house was mentioned in the poor relief assessment of Caernarfon in 1788. The house was subsequently converted as a business premises. It was the Temperance Hotel by 1895 and was later converted to a shop known as Parton's Emporium, when the fenestration in the lower storey was altered. Now once again a house.
Exterior
A Georgian town house; roughcast front wall and slate roof. 3 soreyed, 3-window range in the lower storey is a group of 3 inserted 4-pane sash windows with sill band, L of which is a doorway in a fluted doorcase with shallow moulded canopy on console brackets. The panelled door, reached up steps, has a small-pane overlight. A low boarded door is to the R, while a former basement window is replaced by a metal grille. The middle storey has late C19 4-pane sash windows, the upper storey 6-pane horned sash windows, with sill bands to both storeys.
Interior
Not inspected, but said by RCAHM Wales to consist of 2 rooms in the lower storey, with back-to-back fireplaces set across the corner of each room, and a full-height dog-leg stair with turned balusters and pendants. Slate conduits are in the basement.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as an C18 town house retaining early character, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
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