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
3880
Building Number
14
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/1983
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
Bar Llewelyn
Address
14 Hole-in-the-Wall Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247885
Northing
362758
Street Side
W
Location
Built directly on to the street facing the Town Wall.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A commercial building probably built in the 3rd quarter of the C19 and shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey as part of a large block of buildings between Hole-in-the-Wall Street and Palace Street, although the architectural treatment of the front may be late C19. It was a public house in 1895.
Exterior
Composed of 2 adjoining single-storey ranges slightly canted in plan, of roughcast walls rusticated to the tops of the windows and with simple pilaster strips, and slate roof. The L-hand (S) range has a parapet with outer ball finials and raised pedimented gable to the centre with scrolled sides and blind keyed oculus. It retains 6 openings, the outer narrower, and a panelled door set back from the R end. The L end window replaces an earlier doorway. All the openings have keystones enriched with relief foliage. The windows are replaced. Above the windows is a broad inscription panel with later painted inscription. The R-hand (N) range has similar detail with inscription panel and parapet, but the gabled central portion of the parapet is blank (and a ball finial is missing from the R end). It has 4 windows replaced in original openings with cast iron grilles to the sills, below which are 2 cellar vents. A stub wall abuts the R end. The R gable end has an external stack reduced below the apex. The rear of the S range is rubble stone, the N range pebble-dashed, with a monopitched projection to its NW angle.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its retention of late C19 commercial character and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
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