Post Office, Clynnog, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0212 / 53°1'16"N

Longitude: -4.3641 / 4°21'50"W

OS Eastings: 241529

OS Northings: 349709

OS Grid: SH415497

Mapcode National: GBR 5D.FNCM

Mapcode Global: WH43Y.YB18

Plus Code: 9C5Q2JCP+F9

Entry Name: Post Office

Listing Date: 15 September 1999

Last Amended: 15 September 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22349

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300022349

Location: The shop is set on a cut-off section of the main road, SW of the Coach Inn, and on the corner of a minor road into the hills at the rear.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Clynnog

Locality: Clynnog-fawr

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Post office

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History

The building is at the end of an early C19 row of cottages, and retains a C19 shop front.

Exterior

The building is of stone, pebbledashed, and with a slate roof between gable stacks. Two storeys, 3 window bays, with the Post Office and shop on the ground floor of the 2 left bays. The shop front is a symmetrical composition with a central pair of flush bead-panelled doors and narrow overlight set within a plain timber doorcase, and, to either side, 16-paned shop windows framed with similar but smaller timber pilasters rising from the continuous sill and supporting a fascia and cornice. To the right, a boarded door to the dwelling with a paned overlight, and a window. On the first floor, 3 small windows, all windows have replacement uPVC frames. Short rear wing, angled with the road.

Interior

The shop is open and unmodernised internally. The dwelling has a high boarded dado in the entrance lobby leading to a margin glazed inner door.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a small village shop retaining a good and largely unaltered mid C19 shopfront, a rare survivor of its type. Part of a group with the Coach Inn and other buildings at the centre of Clynnog.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II The Coach Inn
The inn stands beside a raised section of the old line of the main Caernarfon to Llanaelhaearn road, in the centre of Clynnog village.
II Lychgate to the churchyard of the Church of St Beuno
The lychgate opens directly off the main road at the centre of the village, and leads into the W corner of the churchyard opposite the E end of the chancel.
II Bod Cybi
The house is one of a row of cottages overlooking the churchyard at the centre of the village.
II The Court House
The house is immediately outside NE side of the churchyard, facing towards the church.
II Tomb of Eben Fardd
The tomb is set in the churchyard on the NE side of the church, close to the gable of the N vestry.
I Church of St Beuno, with attached Chapel of St Beuno
The parish church is set close to the main Caernarfon to Pwllheli road, in a large graveyard which slopes gently to the N. The chapel stands on the S side of the tower.
II Sundial in the churchyard of the Church of St Beuno
The sundial now stands in the churchyard approximately 3m from the SW corner of the Chapel of St Beuno.
II Bodfasarn
The house lies alongside the main road, immediately SW of the church in the centre of the village.

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Post Office

A Grade II Listed Building in Clynnog, Gwynedd