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
3853
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/1983
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
2 Church Street
Address
2 Church Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247761
Northing
362836
Street Side
E
Location
At the S end of the street, adjoining Plas Bowman (5 High Street).
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably early C19 and shown on the 1810 town plan. A tablet dated 1652 with the monogram 'WT', possibly William Thomas, was perhaps re-used from an earlier house on the site. It was originally a 3-bay house, although the 1834 town plan shows it to have already been incorporated into Plas Bowman facing High Street. It was altered late C19, in conjunction with Plas Bowman, when the fenestration was altered and the front was roughcast. By this time it had become business premises and in 1895 was occupied by solicitors' offices.
Exterior
A 2-window 3-storey house of painted and scribed roughcast walls and slate roof on a plain wooden eaves cornice, with brick end stacks. A central half-lit panelled door has a round-headed overlight and a canopy projecting on iron brackets, and with diagonal strut above. The windows are 3-light with wood mullions and transoms, and are enlargements of original sash windows. The shadows of original sash windows blocked late C19 are visible within the roughcast to the centre of the middle and upper storeys.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its C19 character, for group value with Plas Bowman and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
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