Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
2 Castle Ditch
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 31 March 1983
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13972, -4.27731
- Cadw reference
- 3829
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the E side of the junction of Castle Ditch with Shirehall Street, and oppsoite Caernarfon Castle.
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.
Reason for designation
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.
Nearby in the register
- Oriel PendeitshDomesticunder 1 mi
- County Court (former County Hall)Civilunder 1 mi
- Caernarfon CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- 13 Castle StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.