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
4468
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/07/1989
Date of Amendment
28/07/1989
Name of Property
Pwllheli Hospital (Former Workhouse Building)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Pwllheli
Town
Locality
Easting
237131
Northing
335071
Street Side
Location
Situated to W of the town centre; above the road with hillside to rear.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
Opened in 1837 for the Pwllheli Poor Law Union formed on 3 June of that year comprising 32 parishes. Modern conversion to hospital use.
Exterior
Standard grid plan form with transverse and spinal ranges linked by central octagonal block. Symmetrical 2-storey 3+2+3-window coursed rubble front to main range, the central two bays of which are advanced under a gable with blind attic roundel; formerly with portico. Slate roofs with ventilators; horned 4-pane sashes with cement rendered margins. Below central windows is a broad lintel and simple cornice carried by two tapered piers. The recessed part-glazed door is flanked by two 12-pane sashes. 2-window extensions to either end, 2-storey to left with boarded doors and single storey to right with 4-panel door. The remainder of the structure is pebbledashes with modern additions. The 2-storey spinal range has mainly 4-pane sashes; 3-storey octagon and central part of transverse range. To E is a taller range containing a high segmental arched passage leading through to rear courtyard.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Neigwl.
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