The Castle, Y Castell, Abergele, Conwy

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2869 / 53°17'12"N

Longitude: -3.5831 / 3°34'59"W

OS Eastings: 294560

OS Northings: 377830

OS Grid: SH945778

Mapcode National: GBR 3ZFF.2F

Mapcode Global: WH657.XNX1

Entry Name: The Castle, Y Castell

Listing Date: 5 August 1997

Last Amended: 5 August 1997

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 18698

Building Class: Commercial

Location: Wrapped around the corner between Dundonald Avenue and Pleasant Place, N of the centre of Abergele.

County: Conwy

Town: Abergele

Community: Abergele

Built-Up Area: Abergele

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

Commercial and family hotel, probably built in the mid C19.

Exterior

Built of limestone rubble, with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. Three storeys and cellars. Four bays to Dundonald Avenue have a central door, part glazed, with overlight, and 12-paned hornless sash windows to ground and first floors, and 9-paned sashes to the top floor. The corner on the right is splayed, and has a pair of half-glazed doors beneath a lantern on a cast iron bracket, and a panel over with the name Y CASTELL against a red painted background. The elevation to Pleasant Place is similar, being of 7 bays above a chamfered plinth, with similar windows and wedge lintels, but doors in the 4th and 6th bays, the second bay door replaced by a 12-pane sash. The windows either side of the doors in the splayed corner are replaced. Buff brick stacks.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a well proportioned mid C19 urban building which has been little altered and of group value with Eglwys Crist Addoldy'r Annibynwyr.

Other nearby listed buildings

II Eglwys Crist Addoldy'r Annibynnwyr
The chapel is set on the corner of Dundonald Avenue and Pleasant Place, on the N side of the town centre.
II Church of St Teresa of Lisieux
Located N of the town centre, on the corner of Clwyd Avenue.
II Monument to the great rail disaster of 1868 in the Churchyard of Church of St Michael
The monument is set against the eastern churchyard wall, on the N side of the Church of St Michael.
II* Church of St Michael
Located in a rectangular churchyard in the angle between Water Street and Market Street, at the centre of the town, and accessed by the short Church Street off Market Street
II Ty-mawr Terrace
Small N facing terrace leading W off the junction with Market Place, close to the Parish Church.
II Ty-mawr Terrace
Small N facing terrace leading W off the junction with Market Place, close to the Parish Church.
II Lych Gate to Church of St Michael
Church Street leads off Market Street at the centre of the town. The lychgate is at the entrance to the churchyard at the end of the road.
II National Westminster Bank
The building stands on the W corner of Church Street, in the centre of the town.

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The Castle, Y Castell

A Grade II Listed Building in Abergele, Conwy

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Exterior

Reasons for Listing