Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
4932
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/06/1990
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990
Name of Property
Visitor Centre at Beechwood House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Dolgellau
Town
Locality
Easting
272838
Northing
317943
Street Side
Location
Prominently situated opposite the Shire Hall at the end of the Bont Fawr.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Late Cl9.
Exterior
3 storey, 5 window block. Snecked masonry front and end elevations. Moderately pitched slate roof, hipped over right end. Oversailing eaves, exposed purlins, bargeboards. Snecked masonry stacks.
Victorian sash windows set under eaves to 2nd floor, cemented reveals. Similar to lst floor, stone lintels. Victorian shopfront to ground floor right. Moulded cornice on scrolled brackets, sunk panelled pilasters, doorcase to right, 9 pane shop window to left, rubble stallriser. Doorway and 3 sash windows to left, stone lintels.
Right end elevation faces "Y Bont Fawr", 3 storey, 2 window. Victorian sashes as front to 2nd and lst floors. Small shop window to ground floor, moulded cornice on scrolled brackets and 4 pane window, sunk panelled pilasters, rubble stallriser.
Rear right corner canted back to lower 3 storey gabled rear extension set below eaves of main building giving 3 window elevation. Victorian sashes, stone lintels. Similar extension to right on rear.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group and townscape value.
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