4512

34  

II  

Designated  

28/07/1989  

28/07/1989  

National Westminster Bank  

34 High Street  

Gwynedd  

Pwllheli  

 

 

237591  

335217  

 

In the eastern part of the High Street, detached to left.  

Commercial  

 

Dates from late C18 when if formed part of the contemporary former Madryn town house. Later became the Plas Inn PH. Extended to left and given a Classical banking front sometime between 1891 and 1898.  

2+2-window scribed stucco front, the earlier part is 3-storey and the later part, 2-storey. Slate roofs with brick chimney stacks and flat roof dormer; parapet to left. 12 pane sash windows, those on the 1st floor have lugged architraves with carved brackets to segmental pedimented heads, later windows are horned; 1st floor cill band. Overall cornice and entablature to ground floor which is channel rusticated; 4 round arched headed banking hall windows with keystones and architraves. Round arched doorway to right with rusticated voussoirs below squared head; panelled pilasters and recessed panelled double doors. Modern bank fittings set into high plinth. The earlier part of the building extends further to rear; cross range and modern flat roof extension.  

 

Group value.