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
3876
Building Number
28
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
28 High Street
Address
28 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247844
Northing
362811
Street Side
S
Location
In a row of frontages midway along the street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A late C18 or early C19 shop shown on the 1834 town map. It was a temperance house in 1883 and a confectioner's by 1895.
Exterior
Georgian house and shop, brick with rusticated quoins and slate roof. 3 story, 3 window range. The lower storey has a shallow bowed shop front with openings framed by fluted pilasters, plain fascia and moulded cornice. It's recessed central half-lit panelled door has a hinged overlight. To the R and L are 2-light windows above stallboards boarded over, possibly concealing cellar openings. At the R end is a round-headed doorway with radial overlight and a recessed panelled door incorporating fielded panels. The middle and upper storeys have keyed wedge lintels to hornless sashes which are 12-pane in the middle storey and 9-pane above, except the upper centre window which is blind.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its retention of early C19 Georgian character, including an especially well-preserved and finely detailed early C19 shop front, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
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