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
85348
Building Number
7
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1951
Date of Amendment
26/09/2005
Name of Property
Union Inn
Address
7 Sgwar y Farchnad (Market Square)
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Porthmadog
Town
Locality
Tremadog
Easting
256207
Northing
340157
Street Side
E
Location
A terraced house on the E side of Market Square.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Tremadog was a town created by William Madocks (1773-1828) in the first decade of the C19 on reclaimed land known as Traeth Mawr, the estuary of Afon Glaslyn. It was originally intended to be a post town on a direct road between London and Dublin, via Porthdinllaen on the Lleyn peninsula, a project that in due course lost out to the Holyhead Road. Tremadog was laid out around a market square, with market hall, coaching inn, houses and shops, with a church and chapel just outside the centre. Building of this small planned development, as well as a separate woollen manufactory, began c1805 and was largely completed by the time Richard Colt Hoare described it in 1810. No 7 Market Square was part of this first phase of development. It was known as the Union Inn from at least 1868.
Exterior
A 2-storey double-fronted public house of roughly coursed and squared quarried stone with large lintels, slate roof on slated projecting eaves, and stone end stacks. Its central entrance has fielded-panel doors under a thin overlight. Windows are 4-pane horned sashes, shorter in the upper storey.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a public house, part of the original development of Tremadog, using local stone and retaining definite C19 character and detail. An integral component of the planned town.
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