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
4463
Building Number
12-14
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1951
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Y Sgwar (The Square Restaurant)
Address
12-14 Sgwar y Farchnad (Market Square)
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Porthmadog
Town
Locality
Tremadog
Easting
256172
Northing
340116
Street Side
SW
Location
In the SW corner of Market Square.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Tremadog was a town created by William Madocks (1773-1828) in the first decade of the C19 on reclaimed land known as Traeth Mawr, the estuary of Afon Glaslyn. It was originally intended to be a post town on a direct road between London and Dublin, via Porthdinllaen on the Lleyn peninsula, a project that in due course lost out to the Holyhead Road. Tremadog was laid out around a market square, with market hall, coaching inn, houses and shops, with a church and chapel just outside the centre. Building of this small planned development, as well as a separate woollen manufactory, began c1805 and was largely completed by the time Richard Colt Hoare described it in 1810. Nos 12-14 Market Square were part of this first phase of development, and were probably originally shops with houses above.
Exterior
A 2-storey restaurant and house of roughly coursed and squared blocks of quarried stone, slate roof on projecting eaves and hipped to the L, a skylight and stone ridge stack. It has 2 similar replacement shop fronts with glazed doors and small-pane windows immediately R, under painted fascias and in earlier openings. At the R end is a replacement panel door. The upper storey has two 6-pane hornless sash windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a pair of early C19 shops and houses, which form part of the original development of Tremaodg, make use of local stone, and retain C19 character and some C19 detail; an integral component of the planned town.
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