Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The King's Head Inn
Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bethesda, Bangor, Gwynedd, designated on 25 April 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 April 1997
- Locality
- Bethesda
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Bethesda
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18010, -4.06271
- Cadw reference
- 18417
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in centre of Bethesda some 100m NW of Capel Bethesda in terraced row.
History
Mid C19 public house, possibly of c1840-50.
Exterior
Whitewashed roughcast with painted stucco dressings, slate roof, and corniced right end rendered stack. Two storeys and attic, three-window range of horned 12-pane sashes in plain stucco eared surrounds. Similar surround to C20 centre door and overlight. Raised plinth, heavily moulded timber eaves cornice, returned at right end and treated as cornice of an entablature, the frieze below with KING'S HEAD HOTEL in raised capitals over a thin base moulding. Two dormers in roof with small-paned casement pairs, timber cornices and lead-clad shallow hipped roofs. Slate-hung sides. Rendered right end wall.
Reason for designation
An early Victorian inn frontage with bold cornice and good lettering.
Nearby in the register
- The Victoria HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- 10 John StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 11 John StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Capel BethesdaReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.