Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Castle, Y Castell
Abergele, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 5 August 1997
- Locality
- Abergele
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Abergele
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28691, -3.58312
- Cadw reference
- 18698
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Wrapped around the corner between Dundonald Avenue and Pleasant Place, N of the centre of Abergele.
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.
Reason for designation
Included as a well proportioned mid C19 urban building which has been little altered and of group value with Eglwys Crist Addoldy'r Annibynwyr.
Nearby in the register
- Eglwys Crist Addoldy'r AnnibynnwyrReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St Theresa of LisieuxReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Monument to the great rail disaster of 1868 in the Churchyard of Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.