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17, Bridge Street, Caernarfon, Caernarfon, LL55 1AB

A Grade II Listed Building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1402 / 53°8'24"N

Longitude: -4.2742 / 4°16'27"W

OS Eastings: 247976

OS Northings: 362751

OS Grid: SH479627

Mapcode National: GBR 5J.606J

Mapcode Global: WH43F.9BXJ

Plus Code: 9C5Q4PRG+38

Entry Name: 17, Bridge Street, Caernarfon, Caernarfon, LL55 1AB

Listing Date: 3 May 2002

Last Amended: 3 May 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 26585

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300026585

Location: Set into a row of frontages midway along the street.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Built-Up Area: Caernarfon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

The building is probably early C19 and one of the buildings on Bridge Street shown on the 1834 town plan, but the present front is a remodelling of the third quarter of the C19. It was an ironmonger's shop in 1895.

Exterior

A shop with dwelling above in an enriched late Victorian classical style; 3½ storeys and 4-window front, with roughcast walls, slate roof with roughcast end stacks. The upper storeys have windows in pairs and the attic is given segmental pediment treatment. Windows are 4-pane horned sashes. In the middle storey the windows are arcaded in moulded architraves, with a linked sill. In the upper storey a sill band has end panels on fluted brackets and windows have moulded architraves. A deep moulded eaves cornice has corbelled and gabled end panels. The attic storey has 3 stepped sash windows to the central pediment, of which the central is larger and 4-pane, the outer 2-pane, all in moulded architraves. The verge is stepped, with scrolled sides, beneath an open segmental pediment. The L and R of the attic windows is a balustraded parapet with square shaped balusters over blank panels and plain square terminal piers. The lower storey has a late C20 shop front with central door and overlight, plate glass windows over plain stallboards, and plain deep fascia.

The rear is roughcast, with plain stepped parapet, and retains some late C19 sash windows.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a good example of late C19 classicism in a commercial building, and for its contribution to the distinctive late C19 commercial character of Bridge Street.

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