Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3848
Building Number
4
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/05/1967
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
,4,Castle Street,Walled town,Caernarfon,GWYNEDD,LL55 1SE
Address
4 Castle Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247795
Northing
362798
Street Side
W
Location
In a row of frontages at the N end of Castle Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A late C18 house incorporating a statue niche of probably late medieval origin. In the late C19 the building was adapted, like other premises in the walled town, for commercial use. In 1883 it was a temperance house but by 1895 it was a public house and dining rooms.
Exterior
A Georgian 2-bay 3-storey house of pebble-dashed walls painted cream and slate roof. A central fielded-panel door with diamond-paned overlight, in case with moulded consoles and billeted cornice. Above the doorway is a re-set niche which, although it has '1628' crudely engraved on its L side, is in late medieval style and is probably C16. The niche has a cusped ogee head with sunk spandrels, and shows a winged angel in relief bearing an heraldic shield of a chevron and 3 wolves' heads, the arms of the Foxwist family. Windows are in architraves. In the lower storey they are fixed metal-framed office windows incorporating small sliding centre panes. 12-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor and similar 9-pane sashes in upper storey.
Interior
Interior is modernised.
Reason for designation
Listed as a Georgian town house retaining early character and good detail within a terraced street and incorporating re-used late medieval detail; contributes to the historic integrity of the walled town.
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