Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
3829
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/03/1983
Date of Amendment
03/05/2002
Name of Property
2 Castle Ditch
Address
2 Castle Ditch
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Caernarfon
Town
Caernarfon
Locality
Walled town
Easting
247767
Northing
362709
Street Side
N
Location
On the E side of the junction of Castle Ditch with Shirehall Street, and oppsoite Caernarfon Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
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.
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