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Latitude: 53.1405 / 53°8'25"N
Longitude: -4.2766 / 4°16'35"W
OS Eastings: 247818
OS Northings: 362790
OS Grid: SH478627
Mapcode National: GBR 5H.65MK
Mapcode Global: WH43F.8BS9
Plus Code: 9C5Q4PRF+59
Entry Name: 5, Castle Street, Walled town, Caernarfon, GWYNEDD, LL55 1SE
Listing Date: 8 October 1953
Last Amended: 3 May 2002
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3845
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300003845
Location: Facing a courtyard with monument on the E side of the street.
County: Gwynedd
Town: Caernarfon
Community: Caernarfon
Community: Caernarfon
Locality: Walled town
Built-Up Area: Caernarfon
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
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Built in the early C19 by Richard Garnons, a prominent local landowner. It was described as 'a large new house' in 1809. It was converted as business premises later in the C19 and in 1895 was the office of a solicitor and a printer.
A late Georgian 3-bay 3-storey house of coursed dressed stone and replaced hipped slate roof. The lower storey has a slightly projecting plinth below sill level. The wide central doorway has a round head with prominent voussoirs and a radial-glazed overlight. The door has been replaced. Windows have flat heads with voussoirs and in the middle and upper storeys have sill bands. In 12-pane horned sash windows to ground floor in the middle and upper storeys similar 9-pane windows to 1st and 2nd storeys.
The 2-bay L side wall facing Castle Street has tripartite horned sash windows to the L and a shallow broad canted bay to the R incorporating 12-pane horned sash windows. At the L end is a round-headed doorway with a replaced door recessed and reached up steps. This leads to a through passage beneath the upper storeys. The R side wall retains sash windows but has an added 2-storey wing (a separate property known as Plas Llanwnda).
The interior has been modernised and the plan form altered, although rudiments of the original plan, comprising a central entrance hall and principal rooms R and L, are retained.
Listed for its architectural interest as a former gentleman's town house with an exterior retaining strong late Georgian character and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.
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