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Caer Mena Including Forecourt Railings

A Grade II Listed Building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1414 / 53°8'28"N

Longitude: -4.2777 / 4°16'39"W

OS Eastings: 247748

OS Northings: 362890

OS Grid: SH477628

Mapcode National: GBR 5H.65CL

Mapcode Global: WH43F.898M

Plus Code: 9C5Q4PRC+GW

Entry Name: Caer Mena Including Forecourt Railings

Listing Date: 3 May 2002

Last Amended: 3 May 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 26634

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300026634

Location: Set back from the street behind railings.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Locality: Walled town

Built-Up Area: Caernarfon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

11-15 Church Street was built in the early C20 on the site of the former North Wales Training College, and incorporated some of the earlier fabric and its overall plan. The college was built in the third quarter of the C19 and is shown on the 1890 Ordnance Survey. It was subsequently an Intermediate school. The houses are first shown on the 1918 Ordnance Survey.

Exterior

A house of 3 symmetrical bays and 3 storeys with basement, of painted and scribed roughcast walls, slate roof on moulded and corbelled eaves, and with roughcast end stacks. The central doorway has a panelled door with inserted glazing to the panels. The outer bays have 2-storey bay windows on iron brackets, articulated by thin attached colonnettes, blank panels between storeys and hipped roofs with iron cresting. In the lower storey the windows have leaded lights with coloured glass above the transoms and sash windows to the sides, while in the middle storey are cross windows incorporating casements. The central bay has a 4-pane sash window to the middle storey, which also has moulded bands below the sill and lintel level. In the upper storey each bay has a 4-pane sash window under a moulded cornice on corbels, with string course above. The basement, probably the fabric of the earlier school, has small-pane sash windows flanking a central doorway.

The forecourt has iron railings on a dwarf wall, with decorative finials and pyramid finials to the main stanchions. Double entrance gates and a basement gate to the R have similar detail.

The rear has a lower wing with hipped roof.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as part of a high-quality early C20 terrace retaining fine original detail, which completes a good C19 domestic group in Church Street.

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