Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
85369
Building Number
73
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/09/2005
Date of Amendment
26/09/2005
Name of Property
Browsers Bookshop and house
Address
73 Stryd Fawr (High St)
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Porthmadog
Town
Porthmadog
Locality
Porthmadog
Easting
256841
Northing
338726
Street Side
NE
Location
In a terrace of shops immediately NW of Capel Salem.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Built in the mid C19 as a shop and house and shown on the 1871 Tremadog estate plan and 1888 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 3-storey 2-window shop and house of squared stone blocks laid in regular courses and painted white, slate roof, pebble-dashed stack to the R and original shared stone stack to the L. In the lower storey the house entrance is on the R side, raised above street level and reached up stone steps. It has a fielded-panel door and overlight. The shop has shallow bay windows of 2 panes each flanking a central recessed half-lit fielded-panel door incorporating similar panels to its L and an overlight. Over the shop front is a cornice with moulded billet frieze, above which is an awning. In the middle and upper storeys the windows are offset to the R and are 12-pane horned sashes in the middle storey, shorter 9-pane sashes in the upper storey.
The R gable end, facing Capel Salem, is slate-hung above a cement-rendered lower storey. The rear has a 1-storey flat-roof projection, above which are small-pane sash windows, including a stair window to the L.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved town house and shop of definite C19 character, notable for its distinctive use of local materials and retentiion of an early shop front. Forms a strong visual group with the adjacent Capel Salem.
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