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
85297
Building Number
1
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/09/2005
Date of Amendment
26/09/2005
Name of Property
Y Pisgotwr (The Fisherman)
Address
1 Heol-yr-Wydda (Snowdon Street)
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Porthmadog
Town
Porthmadog
Locality
Porthmadog
Easting
256875
Northing
338696
Street Side
SE
Location
On the corner of High Street and Snowdon Street.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Nos 1-3 Snowdon Street were built in the mid C19 and shown on the 1871 Tremadog estate survey and 1888 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 1-3 Snowdon Street.
A 3-storey range of large blocks of roughly dressed slate-stone, painted white in the middle and upper storeys, under a slate roof, which is hipped to the splayed corner; blocking course to corner and the High Street elevation. No 1 is a shop and house, the lower storey of which has a continuous boarded fascia and deep bracketed cornice. Its entrance is in the splayed corner, which has replacement glazed doors, above which the wall is faced in white glazed tiles and a large painted sign. In the single-window High Street elevation is a replacement shop window in an earlier opening, 4-pane horned sash window in the middle storey, and in the upper storey a round-headed 4-pane sash window under a gable. In the 3-window Snowdon Street elevation are 12-pane hornless sash windows in the middle storey and similar 9-pane windows in the upper storey. The lower storey has original openings: a replacement half-glazed door and overlight, a window to its L and shop window to its R, both replacements.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a prominently sited pair of shops and houses in the town centre retaining definite C19 character and original detail.
Group Description
1-3 Snowdon Street
A 3-storey range of large blocks of roughly dressed slate-stone, painted white in the middle and upper storeys, under a slate roof, which is hipped to the splayed corner; blocking course to corner and the High Street elevation. No 1 is a shop and house, the lower storey of which has a continuous boarded fascia and deep bracketed cornice. Its entrance is in the splayed corner, which has replacement glazed doors, above which the wall is faced in white glazed tiles and a large painted sign. In the single-window High Street elevation is a replacement shop window in an earlier opening, 4-pane horned sash window in the middle storey, and in the upper storey a round-headed 4-pane sash window under a gable. In the 3-window Snowdon Street elevation are 12-pane hornless sash windows in the middle storey and similar 9-pane windows in the upper storey. The lower storey has original openings: a replacement half-glazed door and overlight, a window to its L and shop window to its R, both replacements.
No 3 is a 2-window shop and house to the L of No 1 in Snowdon Street. It has a replacement shop window and half-glazed door framed by Tuscan pilasters with fascia and awning, and moulded brackets to the cornice. It has 12-pane hornless sash windows in the middle storey and 9-pane sash windows above. The L gable end is pebble-dashed, and has an added porch with single-pitch roof. It has a narrow 6-pane sash window on the L side of the middle storey and replacement window above it in the upper storey. The rear has similar small windows on the R side.
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