Siop y Plas, Caernarfon, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1398 / 53°8'23"N

Longitude: -4.2759 / 4°16'33"W

OS Eastings: 247859

OS Northings: 362718

OS Grid: SH478627

Mapcode National: GBR 5H.6CS5

Mapcode Global: WH43F.9B3S

Plus Code: 9C5Q4PQF+WJ

Entry Name: Siop y Plas

Listing Date: 3 May 2002

Last Amended: 3 May 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 26558

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300026558

Location: In a row of frontages near the S end of the street.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Locality: Walled town

Built-Up Area: Caernarfon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Probably adapted as commercial premises from an early C19 building but first shown in its present form on the 1888 Ordnance Survey. It was a baker's shop in 1895.

Exterior

Shop and house 3 storey, 1 bay; scribed stucco with stressed quoins, and graded slate roof with covered skylight and roughcast stack to the L. The lower storey has a C19 shop front framed by boarded pilasters, replaced wooden fascia retaining earlier gabled end brackets and cornice. Replaced door with overlight to the R. The shop window is plate glass beneath clerestorey of lying panes; and above a boarded stall riser. The middle and upper storeys have tripartite windows with 2-pane sashes in Greek Revival architraves, pedimented to 1st floor.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a C19 commercial building retaining original external character with simple Greek Revival detailing, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.

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Siop y Plas

A Grade II Listed Building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd