Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The British Hotel (including British Buttery Bar)
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1988
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22305, -4.13196
- Cadw reference
- 4020
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
At the right hand end of a terrace, on the corner with Farrar Road
History
Built 1851
Exterior
Simple Classical style. 3-storey and basement with modern attic. Colourwashed brick front with raised long and short quoins, dentil cornice, plinth and band courses. Slate roofs, brick end chimney stacks with moulded caps and slate hung attic to centre. Projecting 5-window main range with further ranges to either side (broader to right). Mainly sash windows with marginal glazing bars; casement windows to attic. The main range has corbelled cills; bracketed lintels to 2nd floor, architraves and pedimented lintels to 1st floor and plain lintels and architraves to ground floor. Central flat roof porch with cornice; modern signs over broad entry with Art Nouveau small pane glass; former window to right has been made into another doorway. Grilles over small pane basement windows. 3-storey ranges to either side, 2-window to left and 4-window to right both with similar sash windows but with plainer detail. The Buttery Bar to the extreme left end beyond the quoins has similar 2-window front and is included for its group value; modern ;bar front’ with 6-panel door.
Return right side splayed across the corner with one sash window as before; narrow modern extension and further sash windows beyond also to roughcast rear; large modern extension to left rear. Similar style railings to front with cross pattern.
Interior
Internally the Dining Room retains Rococo plasterwork ornament.
Nearby in the register
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- Railway Station Original BuildingTransportunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box on up platformCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.