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
4898
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
03/04/1951
Date of Amendment
31/01/1995
Name of Property
Ty Crwn (The Lock-up)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Barmouth
Town
Locality
Barmouth Harbour
Easting
261466
Northing
315489
Street Side
Location
Standing about 40m to the W of Ty Gwyn, behind Abermaw Terrace, and in a recent landscaped setting.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
Built on the instructions of the county's magistrates as a lock-up for drunks and petty offenders. The building contract was given to Thomas Rees, Jones James and Rees Owen of Dolgellau and is dated 12th November 1833; their fee was ú55.
Exterior
Single storey; circular plan. Of rough dressed stone with aconical slate roof rising to a central cylindrical moulded stack. There are 2 rooms, each served by a plain flat-arched entrance with 2 barred slit-windows flanking and set high up.
Interior
Within each room is a corner privy and presumably a fireplace (this latter feature is currently obscured: autumn 1994).
Reason for designation
An interesting, unaltered centralised lock-up of considerable local historic interest.
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