The Douglas Arms Hotel including railings is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 1997. Hotel.
The Douglas Arms Hotel including railings
- WRENN ID
- vacant-lime-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1997
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Douglas Arms Hotel including railings, Bethesda, Bangor
- OS grid reference
- SH 624 666
- Coordinates
- 53.17884, -4.05911
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Douglas Arms Hotel is a three-storey building constructed with whitewashed roughcast and slate roofs, featuring roughcast four-shaft corniced end stacks and slate coping. The structure consists of two parallel ranges topped by a large hipped square roof lantern over the central valley, with each side having a row of four 6-pane windows. The facade displays marginal glazing bars on the second and ground floor sashes, while the first floor has 4-pane sashes, with the windows varying in size.
At the center, there are broad flush-panelled double 2-panel doors with an overlight, set within a timber Roman Doric porch that includes an entablature and cornice, along with pilaster responds. The northwest end wall is unpainted roughcast, featuring a ground floor door and a 12-pane sash window on each floor above, positioned to the right of the left gable. The southeast gable mirrors this design but has a raised door due to the slope of the ground. On either side of the porch, spearhead iron railings are mounted on slate coping.
Inside, there is an inner half-glazed door with sidelights and an overlight. The interior features 4-panel doors, simple cornices, and a stick baluster dog-leg staircase located to the right of the hall.
Local climate
The Douglas Arms Hotel including railings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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