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
26524
Building Number
13
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/1983
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
13 Castle Square
Address
13 Castle Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Caernarfon
Easting
247943
Northing
362705
Street Side
N
Location
In a prominently sited row of frontages on Castle Square.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A commercial premises built in the third quarter of the C19 and first shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey. Occupied by a tobacconist in 1895.
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an ambitious late C19 commercial building in the classical style prevalent in Victorian Caernarfon, retaining original character and detail on a prominent corner site, representing the late C19 growth of the commercial district encompassing Castle Square, Bridge Street and Bangor Street.
Group Description
12-14 Castle Square (Paternoster Buildings)
Simplified Baroque style shops with dwellings above, of 3 storeys and attic, on a corner site with splayed angle. Roughcast walls are painted cream, the slate roof is hipped to the R, and has 3 roughcast stacks. Facing Castle Square are 3 paired bays defined by rusticated pilasters in the lower storey and full-height Corinthian pilasters to middle and upper storeys. A broad entablature below the eaves has 'Paternoster Buildings' in raised letters. The middle- and upper-storey windows have architraves. In the L-hand bay (No 12) are renewed 4-pane sashes; in the central bay (No 13) are 4-pane sashes, while in the R-hand bay (No 14) are windows replaced in original openings. The central and L-hand bays also each have 2 segmental-headed roof dormers incorporating opening lights. The L and R-hand bays have late C20 shop fronts. The central bay (No 13) shop front comprises half-glazed panelled doors R and L, window with glazing bars and round vents to the stall board. The fascia is replaced.
Further R is a narrower single-window splayed corner bay and then a bay facing Bridge Street with replaced tripartite windows, with pilasters similar to the Castle Square elevation. To the rear is a single bay facing Lon Crwyn, terminating with a pilaster similar to the main elevations. Beyond, the rear is 5-window, with openings mostly infilled.
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