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
3914
Building Number
16a
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/1983
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
16a Palace Street
Address
16a Palace Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247847
Northing
362736
Street Side
W
Location
In a row of frontages near the S end of the street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A small single-unit C17 house incorporating a passage to a court at the rear. The front wall was raised and a shop front with sash windows created in the late C19, perhaps when it was converted to commercial use. It was a watchmaker's shop in 1895.
Exterior
A 2-storey house of scribed roughcast walls and slate roof with added skylight. A panelled door is to the R, leading to an original passage, and a renewed horizontal sliding sash window is to the L. A similar sash window is in the upper storey.
The pebble-dashed rear has a large external stack partly taken down and capped. The passage is on its L side, above which is a 2-light casement.
Interior
The passage has a timber-framed partition with brick nogging. The roof retains a single queen-post truss abutting No 16. A lath and plaster partition is between the upper storeys of Nos 16a and 18, while in the lower storey a timber-framed partition is on a stone sill with sill beam, and retains wooden boarding.
Reason for designation
Listed as one of the few buildings in the walled town retaining vernacular detail from before the substantial redevelopment of Caernarfon beginning in the late C18, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
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