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
4512
Building Number
34  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/07/1989  
Date of Amendment
28/07/1989  
Name of Property
National Westminster Bank  
Address
34 High Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Pwllheli  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
237591  
Northing
335217  
Street Side
 
Location
In the eastern part of the High Street, detached to left.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Dates from late C18 when if formed part of the contemporary former Madryn town house. Later became the Plas Inn PH. Extended to left and given a Classical banking front sometime between 1891 and 1898.  

Exterior
2+2-window scribed stucco front, the earlier part is 3-storey and the later part, 2-storey. Slate roofs with brick chimney stacks and flat roof dormer; parapet to left. 12 pane sash windows, those on the 1st floor have lugged architraves with carved brackets to segmental pedimented heads, later windows are horned; 1st floor cill band. Overall cornice and entablature to ground floor which is channel rusticated; 4 round arched headed banking hall windows with keystones and architraves. Round arched doorway to right with rusticated voussoirs below squared head; panelled pilasters and recessed panelled double doors. Modern bank fittings set into high plinth. The earlier part of the building extends further to rear; cross range and modern flat roof extension.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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