6 Palace Street

6 Palace Street [Vaynol Arms], Caernarvon

This is one of the very few timber-framed structures surviving within the walled borough of Caernarvon. The plan with cellar suggests a dwelling-and-shop range. The late-medieval timber-framed building survives behind a Georgian front. The range has four storeyed bays, with a cellar (with broach-stopped beam) under the front two bays. The building is box-framed with evidence for a jettied gable facing the street; a section of wall-framing survives, with large two-tiered panels above and below the mid-rail. The three closed trusses all have jowled posts with up-braces to the tiebeams; central posts link tiebeams and collars. It is unclear if the range was part of a larger structure. The original room functions are unknown, but the bay with cellar fronting the street may have been a shop, as it is today. Timbers have been  dated to 1506/7.