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
3923
Building Number
8  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
31/03/1983  
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002  
Name of Property
8 Segontium Terrace, including forecourt railings  
Address
8 Segontium Terrace, including forecourt railings  

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Caernarfon  
Town
Caernarfon  
Locality
Caernarfon  
Easting
247996  
Northing
362600  
Street Side
N  
Location
In a terraced overlooking Slate Quay.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
7-9 Segontium Terrace was built in the early C19 probably as a single development and is shown on the 1810 and 1834 town maps, but the houses never had a unified design. 5-9 Segontium Terrace represents the early development of middle-class urban housing outside the town centre and the site was chosen for its view over the Afon Seiont at a time before the full development of Slate Quay as a port.  

Exterior
A late Georgian house of 3 storeys and 2 bays, of rendered front with rusticated quoin strip to the R and slate roof with roughcast stack to the R. The round-headed doorway in the L-hand bay has replaced panelled door and overlight. Replaced small-pane windows are in earlier openings, shorter in the upper storey, with late C19 keyed architraves. The basement has a similar window and replaced door. Railings in front have spear finials. Rubble-stone rear wall.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as an ambitious urban development prominently sited above Slate Quay. Notwithstanding some loss of its original unified design, the terrace contributes to the strong Georgian tradition in Caernarfon and documents the growing prosperity of the town in the early C19 in the wake of the development of Caernarfon as a major N Wales port.  

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