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
5004
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/02/1952
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Former police Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
272655
Northing
317738
Street Side
Location
On the street line near where Heol-y-Capel opens onto Y Lawnt.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Mid Cl9.
Exterior
2 storey, 3 window building with parallel rear range. Squared, coursed rubble masonry with freestone dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof, hipped to left but truncated on right where later house abutts. Stone stack to left end. Similar to rear range with completed hipped roof. Ovolo moulded eaves cornice, rusticated quoins, plinth.
Round arched windows to lst floor. Rusticated architraves. l6 pane Gothic interlaced sashes. Similar to ground floor flank central doorway. Gothic fanlight over door of 6 fielded panels.
Rear range incorporating cells plainer, random coursed rubble masonry, no eaves cornice. Rusticated round-arched architraves to l2 pane sashes, no interlacing. Similar window to flank.
High rubble wall at rear, flagstone capped, encloses small triangular yard.
Interior
Interior largely modernised for office accommodation.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items on Y Lawnt.
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