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Royal Ship Hotel including former stableyard

Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Domestic
Date of designation
19 June 1990
Community
Dolgellau
Unitary authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.74319, -3.88564
Cadw reference
5060

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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).

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Cadw's description

Prominently sited between Lion Street and Bridge Street.

cl800.

3+ storey, 3 window with 4 storey mid Cl9 gabled wing to left replacing earlier structures on the site, and a corresponding wing to right rear along Bridge Street. Coursed rubble masonry. Steeply pitched slate roof with close verges to old block. Gently pitched with bargeboards to later parts. Hipped to right rear. Stone stacks, moulded caps, water tabling.
5 hipped dormers, slate hung, set wholly in roof. 6 pane sash windows. Victorian sash to gable end of later wing. Victorian sashes flanking 2álight casement to 2nd floor, stone lintels. Similar to lst floor. French windows to wrought ironwork balcony with leaf motif to later wing over 2 storey rectangular bay window. Corniced tops, 4 lights, stone base. Victorian sashes flank central porch to old part. Modern top on square pillars and pilasters with Tuscan columns flanking entry. Moulded architrave. Cl9 doors. Cobbled apron to front.
4 storey 3 window elevation to Lion Street. Victorian sashes, stone lintels. Former stables adjoin to left. 2 storey with lst floor slate hung. Modern slate roof. 8 bipartite small paned sash windows to lst floor set under eaves. 5 similar windows to ground floor set over to right. Single modern window to left. 12 pane sash to gable end on moulded stone corbels.
Single tier of windows to gable end of old part to Bridge Street shallow upper sash to 9 pane 2nd and lst floor windows. 12 pane sash to ground floor. Later wing adjoins to right. Brick construction, stone faced. 3ástorey, 4 window. Victorian sashes, stone lintels. Doorway to centre, stone lintel. Rectangular fanlight over modern panelled door.

Contemporary, but relocated staircases to interior. Panelled doors.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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