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
4571
Building Number
10  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
28/07/1989  
Date of Amendment
28/07/1989  
Name of Property
Rooney Adams Antiques  
Address
10 Penlan Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Pwllheli  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
237531  
Northing
335183  
Street Side
 
Location
Opposite the Old Town Hall on the corner of the lane leading to the car park and St Tudwals Terrace.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Ca 1800 late Georgian  

Exterior
3-storey, 2-window coursed rubble front with slate roof and pebbledash stack to right hand gable end. 9 and 12 pane sash windows, with slate lintels to 1st floor. Good Victorian shop front with fluted fascia end brackets, ramped fascia, bracket cornice and end pilasters; brick stallriser. 18 pane shop window to right, window inserted into former central doorway and two doorways to left, that to the shop is in simple Art Nouveau style. Later cross range to left and oriel window with marginal glazing bars.  

Interior
Interior has beamed ceilings and stone flagged floors. In large cellars the former holding cell, for the Old Town Hall opposite, is retained with the indented marks of 3 seats clearly definable. Segmental arch brick vaulted chamber may represent the end of a former underground passage connecting with the Old Town Hall and Gaol.  

Reason for designation
Group value.  

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