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
3899
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/1983
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
Bron y Gaer
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Caernarfon
Easting
248209
Northing
362437
Street Side
W
Location
Set back from the street behind a walled forecourt and opposite Constantine Terrace.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in the period 1834-52 and first shown on the 1852 town plan. It was the home of Owen Thomas (1817-66), founder and proprietor of the Union Ironworks on Slate Quay.
Exterior
A late Georgian style house of 2 storeys and 3 bays, of scribed stucco with a hipped roof of graded slates on wide bracketed and panelled eaves, with 2 rendered ridge stacks. The advanced central bay has the main entrance recessed behind 2 Ionic columns in antis and has a replaced door with overlight, flanked by round-headed round-backed niches. The upper storey has a 4-pane sash window recessed within a round-headed arch, and an iron balcony with simple neo-classical detail. The outer bays have tripartite 4-pane sash windows in the lower storey and 4-pane sash windows in the upper storey. Set back on the R side is a lower single-bay projection under a hipped slate roof with stack to the R, and 4-pane horned sash windows. The L side wall has a flat-roofed porch offset to the L, which has a panelled door under an elliptical overlight facing the front of the house, and an infilled round-headed window to the side. The upper storey of the main house has a 4-pane sash window to the R. The rear has replaced windows and an added 2-storey wing under a flat roof on the L side.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as well-preserved early C19 house retaining strong original character, and for its contribution to Wellington Terrace, a fine suburban development representing the rising prosperity of Caernarfon consequent upon the growth of its port.
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