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
85384
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/04/1974
Date of Amendment
26/09/2005
Name of Property
Harbour yard walls and gates to Greaves Wharf and Oakleys Wharf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Porthmadog
Town
Porthmadog
Locality
Porthmadog
Easting
256920
Northing
338469
Street Side
Location
Between The Oakleys and Wharf House, facing a lane behind Heol y Parc.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Porthmadog Harbour was developed from the 3rd decade of the C19, at first by landowner and improver William Madocks (1773-1828). The Act of Parliament for Porthmadog Harbour was passed in 1821 and by 1824 the new port was already ready to receive vessels of up to 70 tons (71.12 tonnes) laden. To comply with the provisions of the Act of Parliament, Madocks had a short stone quay built at Cornhill, which henceforth became the commercial centre of the port. Slate companies who purchased wharves were responsible for building their own quays.
Oakleys and Greaves Wharf was a single construction for John Greaves (who opened his own quarry in 1846) and the Rhiwbryfdir Slate Company (founded 1838) in the mid C19. The wharf is mentioned by Owen Morris in 1856. The wall was also constructed in the mid C19, on the outside of which ran narrow-gauge railways leading through gateways to the quayside. It is shown on the 1885 harbour survey and 1888 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A wall approximately 65m in overall length, in several sections and clearly of several phases. From the NE end is a rubble stone wall attached to the Oakleys, breached to make an entrance to Cwrt yr Harbwr, to the R of which the attached wall is curved and constructed of large blocks of coursed stone with stone coping and incorporating a pedestrian gate. Between Cwrt yr Harbwr and Wharf House are 3 sections with entrances defined by monolithic gate piers, of which the northernmost retains iron gates.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as boundary walls notable for their distinctive use of local stone, for their contribution to the setting of buildings on Greaves and Oakleys Wharf, and for their overall contribution to the historical integrity of Porthmadog harbour.
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