2, Castle Ditch, Walled town, Caernarfon, GWYNEDD, LL55 2AU, Caernarfon, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1397 / 53°8'23"N

Longitude: -4.2773 / 4°16'38"W

OS Eastings: 247767

OS Northings: 362709

OS Grid: SH477627

Mapcode National: GBR 5H.6CF8

Mapcode Global: WH43F.8BFV

Plus Code: 9C5Q4PQF+V3

Entry Name: 2, Castle Ditch, Walled town, Caernarfon, GWYNEDD, LL55 2AU

Listing Date: 31 March 1983

Last Amended: 3 May 2002

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3829

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300003829

Location: On the E side of the junction of Castle Ditch with Shirehall Street, and oppsoite Caernarfon Castle.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Caernarfon

Community: Caernarfon

Locality: Walled town

Built-Up Area: Caernarfon

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

An early C19 house that by 1834 was a hotel and in 1888 was known as Castle Vaults.

Exterior

A late Georgian 4-bay 3-storey house of roughcast walls with stone rusticated angle pilasters, graded slate roof on projecting bracketed eaves, and roughcast stack to the R. Windows are in moulded architraves and are 12-pane hornless sashes, except the upper storey which has shorter 6-pane sashes. The doorway is in the bay L of centre, and has a replaced fielded-panel door and overlight. A thin stone band is between lower and middle storeys. The L gable end has a 12-pane hornless sash window lower R, above which is a small bullseye window in the upper storey. The rear is attached to a large office block dated 1983.

Interior

Altered plan with no original detail.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a good later C19 building retaining strong external character, still within the strong Georgian tradition in Caernarfon, and with other associated listed items for its contribution to the setting of Caernarfon Castle.

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2, Castle Ditch, Walled town, Caernarfon, GWYNEDD, LL55 2AU

A Grade II Listed Building in Caernarfon, Gwynedd