Spar, Harlech, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.8583 / 52°51'29"N

Longitude: -4.1087 / 4°6'31"W

OS Eastings: 258119

OS Northings: 331064

OS Grid: SH581310

Mapcode National: GBR 5Q.RY50

Mapcode Global: WH55Z.VFM2

Plus Code: 9C4QVV5R+8G

Entry Name: Spar

Listing Date: 21 June 2001

Last Amended: 21 June 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 25503

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300025503

Location: On the street-line, adjoining Plas Cafe.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Harlech

Built-Up Area: Harlech

Traditional County: Merionethshire

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History

Mid-Victorian shop perhaps with earlier, second-quarter C19 origins. The building (or its predecessor) is shown on the 1840 Llandanwg Tithe map, though its present character is third-quarter C19. The implication therefore is that the present building is a replacement, or else a remodelling of, that shown in the map.

Exterior

Two-storey commercial premesis, consisting of a continuous ground-floor shop front and a 3-window first-floor. Of rubble construction with whitened facade of roughly-dressed, snecked, squared blocks; medium-pitched slate roof with 3 irregularly-spaced ashlar chimneys; plain banding and capping. The shop front is late C19 or early C20 and has an applied modern signboard to a fascia with simply-moulded ends. 2-bay plain glazed panels flank a central entrance; to the R is an entrance giving access to the first-floor with original door having 2-panel glazed upper section and plain rectangular overlight. The first floor has 3 recessed, 24-pane unhorned sashes, asymmetrically spaced. Adjoining the building to the L is a short stretch of unwhitened rubble wall standing to a height of approximately 3m; this has an entrance with modern door.

The unwhitened rear facade has asymmetrical openings: tall 18-pane stair-light to the L and two 12-pane sashes to the R on both floors; those to the upper floor have modern external wooden slatted shutters.

Interior

Modern shop interior.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a mid Victorian commercial premises retaining original character in a prominent road-side location.

Group value with the adjoining Plas Cafe.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II The Plas
On the street line, at the SW end of the main street.
II Parish Church of St Tanwg
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II Harlech Pottery including Forecourt Walls and Railings
Set back at a slight angle to the street partly with low, railed forecourt walls.
II Gweithdy Saer
Set back slightly from the lane behind a short metalled forecourt.
II Bryn Tirion
Set against the hill slope at the junction between Pen Dref and a lane leading to Rehoboth chapel, in the centre of the town.
I Harlech Castle
Imposingly sited in the centre of the town with dramatic views across Tremadog Bay and towards Snowdonia.
II Ty'r Felin
Set back slightly from the lane behind a narrow garden.
II Capel Rehoboth
On a commanding, elevated site on the eastern edge of Harlech with fine views over the town and castle; set within its own walled graveyard and accessed via a steep lane leading up from the Stryd Fawr

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Spar

A Grade II Listed Building in Harlech, Gwynedd