26637

 

II  

Designated  

03/05/2002  

03/05/2002  

Former warehouse on Balaclava Road  

 

Gwynedd  

Caernarfon  

Caernarfon  

Victoria Dock  

247911  

363046  

NW  

Opposite Pretoria Terrace and on the SE side of Victoria Dock. Warehouse on Victoria Dock is attached on the N side.  

Commercial  

 

Probably contemporary with Victoria Dock, completed in 1874, and shown on the 1890 Ordnance Survey.  

A 2-storey warehouse of rubble granite with larger quoins and a renewed slate roof. Openings were mainly boarded up at the time of inspection. Facing Balaclava Road, the S gable end is of cyclopean granite. It has central boarded double doors and a single half-lit door to the L, each with its overlight boarded up. A small inserted window is further L, while a small window with brick jambs and slate lintel and sill has been inserted to the R between storeys. In the upper storey the central window has a shallow 4-centred arch and is flanked by camber-headed windows. These wood-framed windows all have brick dressings, the outer windows also with slate sills. The L side wall has 6 windows beneath the eaves, with brick dressings. The R (E) side wall has 6 openings, but only the L-hand window has brick dressings on its L side. In the lower storey are 7 doorways, the R-hand narrower, under wooden lintels obscured by a later fascia.  

 

Listed as a warehouse retaining good character in the functional tradition and for group value with other listed items at Victoria Dock.