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
26533
Building Number
11
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/05/1967
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
,11,Castle Ditch,Walled town,Caernarfon,,LL55 2AY
Address
11 Castle Ditch
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247833
Northing
362722
Street Side
N
Location
In a row of frontages directly opposite Caernarfon Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Probably an C18 house and one of the buildings indicated here on the 1810 town map. It was converted to business use in the late C19 and in 1895 housed an auctioneer's office and a wine and spirit merchant.
Exterior
A Georgian house and shop of 2 bays and 3 storeys with attic, of roughcast walls and slate roof on a moulded wooden eaves cornice. In the lower storey is a mid C20 shop front comprising 2 segmental-headed windows replaced in original openings and a dentilled cornice. Replaced double doors are to the L under a plain segmental-headed overlight. The middle and upper storeys have small renewed 4-pane sash windows in original openings, those to the left not quite aligned (Louvres to the attic are rendered over and not visible from the exterior.)
The rear is rubble stone and has a 2-storey roughcast lean-to and a single-storey L-shaped link to 16 Palace Street. The rear is built on a stone boundary wall defining earlier burgage plots.
Interior
Original stairs, in parallel flights, survive partly in the upper storeys. The 2-bay roof has an early C19 collar-beam truss, but with re-used collar and renewed purlins. The attic has louvres to the front elevation.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late C18 building contrasting with its later neighbours in retaining urban vernacular character, including notably smaller window openings. Part of a town centre group contributing to the setting of Caernarfon Castle.
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