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8, Segontium Terrace, including forecourt railings, Caernarfon, Caernarfon, GWYNEDD, LL55 2PN

A Grade II Listed Building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1388 / 53°8'19"N

Longitude: -4.2738 / 4°16'25"W

OS Eastings: 247996

OS Northings: 362600

OS Grid: SH479626

Mapcode National: GBR 5J.6696

Mapcode Global: WH43F.BC2K

Plus Code: 9C5Q4PQG+GF

Entry Name: 8, Segontium Terrace, including forecourt railings, Caernarfon, Caernarfon, GWYNEDD, LL55 2PN

Listing Date: 31 March 1983

Last Amended: 3 May 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3923

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300003923

Location: In a terraced overlooking Slate Quay.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Built-Up Area: Caernarfon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

7-9 Segontium Terrace was built in the early C19 probably as a single development and is shown on the 1810 and 1834 town maps, but the houses never had a unified design. 5-9 Segontium Terrace represents the early development of middle-class urban housing outside the town centre and the site was chosen for its view over the Afon Seiont at a time before the full development of Slate Quay as a port.

Exterior

A late Georgian house of 3 storeys and 2 bays, of rendered front with rusticated quoin strip to the R and slate roof with roughcast stack to the R. The round-headed doorway in the L-hand bay has replaced panelled door and overlight. Replaced small-pane windows are in earlier openings, shorter in the upper storey, with late C19 keyed architraves. The basement has a similar window and replaced door. Railings in front have spear finials. Rubble-stone rear wall.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as an ambitious urban development prominently sited above Slate Quay. Notwithstanding some loss of its original unified design, the terrace contributes to the strong Georgian tradition in Caernarfon and documents the growing prosperity of the town in the early C19 in the wake of the development of Caernarfon as a major N Wales port.

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