Windmill Florists (incorporating 2 Hole-in-the-Wall Street), Caernarfon, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1407 / 53°8'26"N

Longitude: -4.2755 / 4°16'31"W

OS Eastings: 247891

OS Northings: 362813

OS Grid: SH478628

Mapcode National: GBR 5H.65X8

Mapcode Global: WH43F.9B93

Plus Code: 9C5Q4PRF+7R

Entry Name: Windmill Florists (incorporating 2 Hole-in-the-Wall Street)

Listing Date: 29 May 1968

Last Amended: 3 May 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3879

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300003879

Location: At the junction of High Street with Hole-in-the-Wall Street.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Locality: Walled town

Built-Up Area: Caernarfon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Flower shop

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History

Built as a shop in the mid C19 and first shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey. It was a temperance house in 1895.

Exterior

Tall, narrow, 3 storey, single bay shop and house, in an eclectic Victorian classical style of painted roughcast walls, hipped slate roof on projecting dentilled eaves, with 2 roughcast stacks to the R. The mid C19 shop front has Greek Doric columns and deep cornice with mutules concealed behind an added late C20 fascia. The doorway to the L, reached up stone steps, has a half-lit panelled door and plain overlight. To its R is a plate glass shop window in an original opening. Beneath it is plate glass replacing the stall board and bars over a cellar window. In the middle storey is a late C19 art nouveau cast iron balcony fronting a window with architrave and pediment on consoles. The window is a tall 2-light casement with marginal glazing bars. The upper storey window has a similar pedimented architrave and a replaced 2-light casement.

In the 2-window L side wall, facing Hole-in-the-Wall Street, is a fielded panel door L of centre in an architrave and with an overlight boarded up. All the windows in the side wall have architraves incorporating corbelled sills and are offset to the L side. There is a single replaced lower-storey window, 2 windows in the middle storey, a single window in the upper storey and a small attic window to the centre. The rear wall is slate hung.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as an especially good and well-preserved example of the eclectic classicism so charecteristic of Victorian Caernarfon, and for its contribution to the historic integrity of the walled town.

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II* 38-40, High Street, Walled town, Caernarfon, GWYNEDD, LL55 1RN
In a row of frontages near the E end of the street.
II* East Gate, incorporating 3 Hole-in-the-Wall Street
The E end of High Street.
II 39, High Street, Walled town, Caernarfon, GWYNEDD, LL55 1RH
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II 36 High Street
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II* Tanybont Arch, including former lock-up to SE
To the E of the East Gate of the Town Wall.
II The Old Market
Towards the N end of Palace Street with entrance from Palace Street and Hole-in-the-Wall Street.
II 34a, High Street, Walled town, Caernarfon, LL55 1RH
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II 4 Eastgate Street, Caernarfon, Caernarfon
At the W end of a row of frontages and adjacent to the bridge linking with the East Gate of the Town Wall.

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Windmill Florists (incorporating 2 Hole-in-the-Wall Street)

A Grade II Listed Building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd