3862

5  

II  

Designated  

10/08/1953  

03/05/2002  

Plas Bowman  

5 High Street  

Gwynedd  

Caernarfon  

Caernarfon  

Walled town  

247763  

362827  

N  

At the junction of High Street and Church Street.  

Domestic  

 

Dated 1808 with the monogram RN, said to refer to the Nanney family. In the late C19 its L side wall facing Church Street was roughcast when it was combined as a single business premises with 2 Church Street. In 1895 Plas Bowman was the County Court Office and the District Registry of the High Court, while Plas Bowman and 2 Church Street both housed solicitors' offices. Plas Bowman was damaged late C20 by a fire that gutted the interior and destroyed the roof.  

Late Georgian town house; coursed and squared stone, the roof is entirely destroyed. 3 storeys, 4 unequal bays to High Street elevation; the openings offset to the left. The round-headed doorway is in the bay R of centre and has a radial overlight and panelled reveals. It has been boarded up. Above it is a small dated slate tablet. The windows have flat arches and are blocked. The first-floor windows have a sill band. The L-hand return wall, facing Church Street, is 2-bay, of late C19 scribed roughcast painted cream, first-floor sill band thicker than to the front elevation, and blocked windows.  

 

Listed, notwithstanding fire damage, as an important early C19 gentry town house on a prominent corner site, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.