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
4566
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/07/1989
Date of Amendment
28/07/1989
Name of Property
Town Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Pwllheli
Town
Locality
Easting
237478
Northing
335161
Street Side
Location
At the corner with Market Square, midway along the street.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
Built 1900-2 by the town surveyor who had studied other town and market halls; cost £5,800. Intended as an entertainment hall for the then thriving seaside resort. Solomon Andrews of Cardiff, who was the first Freeman of Pwllheli, too the first contract to show films in the building after the cinema was opened in 1911.
Exterior
Ruabon brick: 3-storey structure with subdued Neo-Baroque terracotta detail. Pitched slate roof to centre flanked by pale brick chimney stacks. 5-bay from with iron railings over parapet with blind cartouche panels and end finials. The central bay has pedimented top flanked by Obelisk finials crowing the frontispiece; various band courses below. The symmetry of the building is formed by alternating the arrangement of windows which are a mixture of 2 and 3-lights, some cross frame with ovolo mouldings. Broad architraves to outer 1st floor bays and bast strapwork volutes to central 2nd floor window over the oriel with panelled parapet and arched central light in early C17 manner - contemporary in style to the obelisks rising from the apron. Broad round arched entry with iron lamp bracket and giant decorative wrought iron tympanum with Art Nouveau touches. Cross frame windows flank the main entrance with further arched doorways to outer bays; modern doors. Left hand side is red brick as far back as the Tabernacle Chapel, then rendered. The right hand side has similar details, 5 + 1 bays with central bay similar to that on the front but without an oriel. Left hand ground floor window raised up over fleuron decorated panel.
Interior
The main auditorium rises through 1st and 2nd floors and has bowed gallery front carried on cast iron columns with foliage capitals. Deep classical ornament to front and dated town crest and Prince of Wales feathers; ceiling ventilators. Renovated in 1955.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
Export