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
26520
Building Number
6
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
6 Castle Square
Address
6 Castle Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Caernarfon
Easting
247906
Northing
362709
Street Side
N
Location
In a prominently sited row of frontages on Castle Square.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Late C18 or early and first shown on the 1810 town plan. Nos 5 and 6 Castle Square were originally a single property and are shown as such on the 1834 and 1852 town plans, but its present sudivision occurred in the third quarter of the C19 when the building was adapted to commercial use, and is shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey. The present frontages date from the time of subdivision. In 1895 No 6 was a tailor's shop.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its retention of late C19 commercial character in a late Georgian terrace, and with other associated listed items for its contribution to the setting of Caernarfon Castle.
Group Description
5-6 Castle Square
A pair of shops with dwellings above, forming a terrace, a roughcast front and slate roofs, of which No 5 is replaced slate but No 6 retains original graded slates. 3 storeys, each a single bay. The middle and upper storeys have rusticated end pilaster strips, moulded upper sill band and moulded wooden eaves cornice. The middle and upper-storey windows are tripartite 4-pane sashes between broad colonnettes with crocket capitals, which in the middle storey have architraves with blind segmental arches. In the lower storey, No 6 has an early C20 shop front, comprising fascia with end brackets on plain pilasters, a replaced door and 2-light shop window with turned wood mullions and transom. No 5 has a late C20 front.
Wings are added to the rear.
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