Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
85358
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/09/2005
Date of Amendment
26/09/2005
Name of Property
Belle Vue, including forecourt wall and railings
Address
2 Ffordd Garth (Garth Road)
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Porthmadog
Town
Porthmadog
Locality
Porthmadog
Easting
256829
Northing
338202
Street Side
W
Location
The centre of a row of 3 houses set back from and above the level of Garth Road, overlooking the harbour and the Cob.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Built in the later C19 as a terrace of 3 sustantial town houses.
Exterior
Belongs to a group of 1-2 Belle Vue.
A pair of 3-storey 2-bay late-Victorian classical style houses of rendered walls, slate roof on projecting eaves and hipped to the R, and rendered stacks. Both have the entrance in the R-hand bay, comprising recessed panel doors with half-lit side panels and overlights. Ground-floor openings have cornices on moulded consoles, and middle-storey windows have hood moulds. No 1 has 12-pane sash windows, No 2 has 2-pane sash windows. The 3-window R end wall (No 1) has small-pane sash windows and a small added porch.
The forecourt has scribed roughcast revetment walls and iron railings, which continues around the side of No 1 (railings to No 2 are largely obscured).
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved town house retaining definite late C19 character, one of a well-preserved pair of houses overlooking the harbour and the Cob.
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