The Victoria Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 April 1997. Hotel.
The Victoria Hotel
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- 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 Victoria Hotel, Bethesda, Bangor
- OS grid reference
- SH 622 668
- Coordinates
- 53.18046, -4.06329
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Victoria Hotel is a two-storey building constructed from rubble stone and painted stucco, topped with a slate roof and featuring three rendered stacks—one at each end and one along the ridge. The hotel has a five-window range, with the central bay projecting slightly. The two outer wings match in detail but have different window spacing. The first floor is stuccoed, while the ground floor likely was originally as well.
On the first floor, there are five hornless 12-pane sash windows set in moulded stucco surrounds. The words "VICTORIA" and "HOTEL" are prominently displayed in large Victorian capitals on either side of the central bay. A raised band over the ground floor is broken forward at the central bay, which does not have a centre break. The central entrance features a six-panel door with an overlight, framed by a timber surround with pilasters and an overhanging corniced flat hood. There are 12-pane sash windows on either side of the door, each with lintels made from a single slab of stone.
The outer bays have broad cambered arches, likely intended as coach entries. The right arch, constructed with stone voussoirs, leads to a through-way at the rear of the building. The left arch has 20th-century cladding over it and serves as a porch to the modern Neuadd Ogwen attached behind.
Local climate
The Victoria Hotel 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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