History

Tremadog was a town created by William Madocks (1773-1828) in the first decade of the C19 on reclaimed land known as Traeth Mawr, the estuary of Afon Glaslyn. It was originally intended to be a post town on a direct road between London and Dublin, via Porthdinllaen on the Lleyn peninsula, a project that in due course lost out to the Holyhead Road. Tremadog was laid out around a market square, with market hall, coaching inn, houses and shops, with a church and chapel just outside the centre. Building of this small planned development, as well as a separate woollen manufactory, began c1805 and was largely completed by the time Richard Colt Hoare described it in 1810. No 2 Market Square was part of this first phase of development. It was built as a pair with No 4, although details of the houses are now much different. No 2 was altered in the late C19 by introducing bay windows and later a porch.

Exterior

A 2-storey double-fronted house of pebble-dashed walls, renewed slate roof on wide boarded eaves, hipped to the R and in a single range with No 4, with pebble-dashed stack to the L and to the front slope of the R-hand (Dublin Street) elevation. An added central gabled porch is of coursed stone with impost band below a freestone round head, which has a replacement glazed door and plain overlight. Late C19 2-storey canted bay windows have replacement glazing. The R-hand corner is splayed. The 2-window elevation to Dublin Street has replacement glazing. The gable rear has an added lean-to conservatory.

The forecourt, added with the bay windows, has a slate plinth to iron railings with spear finials.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special architectural interest as a prominent corner building retaining elements of its original form as part of the early development of Tremadog, though with good later C19 detail. An integral component of the planned town.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29484130

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