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
26522
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1968
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
8 Castle Square
Address
8 Castle Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Caernarfon
Easting
247914
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. It was originally a single 3-bay property with No 7 and is shown as such on the 1834 and 1852 town plans, but its present subdivision had occurred by the time of the 1888 Ordnance Survey, when it was adapted to commercial use. In 1895 it was a grocer's store.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed with No 7 as part of a late Georgian terrace retaining some early character that contributes to the strong Georgian tradition in Caernarfon and to the setting of Caernarfon Castle.
Group Description
7-8 Castle Square
A pair of shops with dwellings above, forming part of a terrace. 3 storeys and a single bay each. The front is scribed roughcast, the roof of slate with brick end stacks. No 7 has a replaced slate roof on a dentilled eaves cornice, while No 8 retains a graded slate roof on a moulded cornice. The bay structure of the original 3-bay building is discernible in the middle and upper storeys. The original central bay has blocked windows with chamfered reveals spanning both properties, while the R-hand bay (No 8) has horned sash windows in chamfered surrounds, 12-pane in the middle storey and 9-pane in the upper storey. In the L-hand bay (No 7) are lately inserted tripartite 4-pane sash windows in each storey. Of an early C20 shop front to No 8, panelled pilasters and fascia end panels are retained, but the lower storey storey is otherwise a remodelled late C20 shop front. No 7 has a late C20 shop front in the lower storey.
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