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. Nos 12-14 Market Square were part of this first phase of development, and were probably originally shops with houses above.

Exterior

A 2-storey restaurant and house of roughly coursed and squared blocks of quarried stone, slate roof on projecting eaves and hipped to the L, a skylight and stone ridge stack. It has 2 similar replacement shop fronts with glazed doors and small-pane windows immediately R, under painted fascias and in earlier openings. At the R end is a replacement panel door. The upper storey has two 6-pane hornless sash windows.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special architectural interest as a pair of early C19 shops and houses, which form part of the original development of Tremaodg, make use of local stone, and retain C19 character and some C19 detail; an integral component of the planned town.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29484132

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)