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
4931
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/06/1990  
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990  
Name of Property
Beechwood House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Dolgellau  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
272837  
Northing
317937  
Street Side
 
Location
Prominently situated opposite the Shire Hall at the end of the Bont Fawr.  

Description


Broad Class
Commercial  
Period
 

History
Late Cl9.  

Exterior
3 storey, 5 window block. Snecked masonry front and end elevations. Moderately pitched slate roof, hipped over right end. Oversailing eaves, exposed purlins, bargeboards. Snecked masonry stacks. Victorian sash windows set under eaves to 2nd floor, cemented reveals. Similar to lst floor, stone lintels. Victorian shopfront to ground floor right. Moulded cornice on scrolled brackets, sunk panelled pilasters, doorcase to right, 9 pane shop window to left, rubble stallriser. Doorway and 3 sash windows to left, stone lintels. Right end elevation faces "Y Bont Fawr", 3 storey, 2 window. Victorian sashes as front to 2nd and lst floors. Small shop window to ground floor, moulded cornice on scrolled brackets and 4 pane window, sunk panelled pilasters, rubble stallriser. Rear right corner canted back to lower 3 storey gabled rear extension set below eaves of main building giving 3 window elevation. Victorian sashes, stone lintels. Similar extension to right on rear.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included for group and townscape value.  

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