Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4911
Building Number
68 &7
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1951
Date of Amendment
13/12/2001
Name of Property
Barclays Bank
Address
68 &7 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bala
Town
Locality
Easting
292579
Northing
335938
Street Side
SE
Location
On the street-line.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Late C18 or early C19 house and shop with mid C19 stucco facade. This was the home of Thomas Charles, one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1804. Charles (1755-1814) was also an education pioneer and an early champion of the Welsh Sunday Schools. He has two statues in the town. Since 1920 the building has been a bank.
Exterior
Three-storey house and commercial premises of rubble with later stucco facade; slate roof and large flanking rubble chimneys. Three-bay elevation with modern bank openings to ground floor. The first and second floor windows have Victorian 6-pane sashes with projecting stucco keyblocks and lintels. The 2nd storey windows additionally have moulded stucco architraves; moulded stringcourse between the floors, and a moulded cornice and parapet to the roofline.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late Georgian former house and shop retaining fine mid C19 stucco facade, and for its special historic interest as the home of Thomas Charles, one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society and pioneer of the Welsh Sunday Schools.
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