Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3866
Building Number
21
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
22/05/1967
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
Tafarn y Werin
Address
21 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247831
Northing
362829
Street Side
N
Location
In a row of frontages midway along the street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built in the third quarter of the C19 and first shown on the 1890 Ordnance Survey. It was a grocer's shop in 1895. Owned by the Vaynol Estate until 1957.
Exterior
A shop and house of 3 storeys and 2 windows, of scribed stucco, slate roof and brick stack to the L. Ground-floor windows do not align with the upper windows, revealing its original commercial use and the position of a side passage. In the lower storey is a replaced door L of centre under a late C19 overlight. To its L and R are large 2-pane horned sash windows. At the R end is a panelled passage door under an overlight. Above the lower storey is a late C20 fascia. In the middle storey are 12-pane, in the upper storey shorter 9-pane hornless sash windows with thin glazing bars.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its simple C19 Georgian character and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
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