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
4960
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Plas Newydd (Premises of Nurses TV & Radio)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
272827
Northing
317735
Street Side
Location
On the street line at the corner with Meyrick Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Cl7 rear range with 3 bay extension of cl800 or earlier to Eldon Square.
Exterior
Coursed rubble masonry, rendered to front and later extensions to left gable ends. Moderately pitched slate roof to rear range. Square stone stack to left, water tabling. 2 semi-apsidal bays (formerly slate hung) with hipped slate roofs flank slightly recessed central bay with pediment treatment. Lateral stacks to extreme right and on left side of centre and left hand bays, latter rendered.
Pediment like gable of centre bay rests on timber dentil cornice over bipartite Victorian sash window, thin half-round pilasters. Dentil eaves cornice to flanking apsidal bays. Tripartite Victorian sashes canted back. (All lst floor glazing was formerly small paned sashes.)
Continuous fascia over shopfronts to ground floor. Recessed entrances, modern doors and shop windows.
Later asymmetric twin gabled l bay extension to Meyrick Street, Bargeboards, exposed purlins. Pebbledashed. Victorian sash windows. l to apex of gable to left. 3 to lst floor, narrower to right. Modern window to ground floor left. Doorway to centre with small window to left, cellar opening below with wooden shutter. Victorian sash to right. Low flat-roofed extension adjoins apsidal bay to right.
The "pedimented" bay facing Eldon Square was the red Lion PH in l820.
Interior
Interior of first floor retains sturdy chamfered beams.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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