The British Hotel (including British Buttery Bar) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. Hotel. 4 related planning applications.
The British Hotel (including British Buttery Bar)
- WRENN ID
- half-cobalt-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1988
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The British Hotel (including British Buttery Bar), Bangor, LL57 1NP
- OS grid reference
- SH 577 716
- Coordinates
- 53.22307, -4.13197
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The British Hotel, which includes the British Buttery Bar, is a building designed in a simple Classical style. It has three storeys and a basement, with a modern attic added. The front is made of colourwashed brick featuring raised long and short quoins, a dentil cornice, a plinth, and band courses. The roof is slate, with brick end chimney stacks that have moulded caps, and the centre has a slate-hung attic.
The main range projects and has five windows, with additional ranges on either side, the one on the right being broader. Most of the windows are sash windows with marginal glazing bars, while the attic features casement windows. The main range includes corbelled cills, bracketed lintels on the second floor, and architraves and pedimented lintels on the first floor. The ground floor has plain lintels and architraves. A central flat roof porch with a cornice leads to a broad entry that has modern signs and Art Nouveau small pane glass. A former window on the right has been converted into another doorway, and there are grilles over the small pane basement windows.
To the left and right of the main range are three-storey sections, with a two-window range on the left and a four-window range on the right, both featuring similar sash windows but with simpler details. The Buttery Bar, located at the extreme left end beyond the quoins, has a similar two-window front and is included for its group value; it features a modern bar front with a six-panel door.
On the right side, the building splayed across the corner has one sash window and a narrow modern extension, with additional sash windows beyond on the roughcast rear. There is a large modern extension to the left rear. The front also has similar style railings with a cross pattern.
Inside, the Dining Room retains Rococo plasterwork ornament.
Local climate
The British Hotel (including British Buttery Bar) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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