Pioden (Magpie)

Pioden (Magpie), 1-9 High Street

A row of four late-Georgian style terraced buildings, each three storeys tall with two windows to the front and functioning as shops with residential accommodation above. The buildings have slate-hung fronts and slate roofs hipped to the right end (No. 1), where the corner is also splayed. Stone transverse chimney stacks run across the roof, with a fourth pebble-dashed stack at the right end. The houses are not of equal width: No. 1 is the widest, whilst Nos. 7 and 9 are narrower than No. 3.

No. 1 (Pioden) features a replacement lower-storey window and replacement door positioned to the right in a modern stone surround. To its right is a single-storey flat-roofed extension with slate-hung walls and a wide modern shop window under an awning. The middle storey contains 12-pane hornless sash windows, and the upper storey has shorter 9-pane sashes. The right end wall, facing Madoc Street, is slate-hung above a lower-storey dentilled cornice, with 12-pane and 9-pane sash windows matching the front. To the right of the single-storey extension is a 4-pane hornless sash window in the lower storey. The rear is rubble stone laid in rough courses and includes a single-storey projection under a single-pitch roof.

No. 3 (Harbour Restaurant) has its entrance to the left, a recessed replacement boarded door under an overlight. To its right is a modern shop window in an earlier opening, with an awning and modern fascia across the lower storey. The middle storey has replacement 12-pane horned sash windows, and the upper storey has similar but shorter 9-pane sashes. The rear is set slightly back and is rubble stone laid in rough courses, with a narrow two-storey wing.

No. 7 has its entrance to the left, a recessed replacement glazed door under an overlight, with a replacement shop window to its right in an earlier opening under a modern fascia. The middle and upper storeys have hornless sash windows similar to Nos. 1 and 3, though the glazing bars in the lower sashes have been removed. The rear is set slightly back with a longer two-storey roughcast wing, which has a pebble-dashed front facing the lane at the side of the block. The wing features 20th-century horned sash windows, renewed external steps at the left end leading to a replacement first-floor door, and a half-glazed door and shop window inserted in a former wide doorway.

No. 9 (Portmeirion Pottery and Gifts) has a late 19th-century shop front with a replacement window and recessed entrance to the left with a replacement glazed door. The middle and upper storeys have hornless sash windows similar to Nos. 1 and 3, with the glazing bars in the lower sashes removed. The left gable end is constructed of large blocks of unworked slate-stone laid in regular courses in the lower and middle storeys, with roughcast above. The lower storey has inserted paired horned sash windows, and the left side retains small-pane sash windows in the lower and middle storeys. The upper storey has a small-pane sash window to the right. The rear is set slightly back with a longer two-storey roughcast wing with similar features to No. 7.