Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
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
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
Prominently sited between Lion Street and Bridge Street.
History
cl800.
Exterior
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.
Interior
Contemporary, but relocated staircases to interior. Panelled doors.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Lion StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- T.H.Roberts, IronmongerCommercialunder 1 mi
- Siop HughesCommercialunder 1 mi
- 1 Lion StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.