Pengwern Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1996. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
Pengwern Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- scarred-ledge-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1996
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Pengwern Arms Hotel, Llan Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 4PB
- OS grid reference
- SH 700 419
- Coordinates
- 52.95915, -3.93636
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Pengwern Arms Hotel is a large inn complex arranged in an L-shape, primarily consisting of two stories. The building is made of whitened and partly stuccoed rubble, topped with slate roofs and featuring plain, broad chimneys. The oldest part is the central block, which is stuccoed and has two bays with large 16-pane sash windows on both floors. In the center of this block, there is a notable recessed slate armorial plaque displaying the arms of the Lewis family, inscribed with the date 1728.
To the right of this central block, there is an early 19th-century stuccoed section with a hipped roof. Its entrance front faces west and consists of three bays, featuring a central entrance with a modern boarded door and a plain rectangular fanlight. On either side of the entrance are original 16-pane sash windows, with three similar windows located above. The south face of this section has two windows and an entrance to the right, all consistent with the previous window styles.
To the left of the central block is a three-bay range built in the third quarter of the 19th century, made from whitened snecked rubble and also two stories tall. It features a stone chimney on the right with pronounced moulded capping. The central entrance bay is recessed and has a modern glazed door with a glazed inner porch. Above it is a 20-pane recessed sash window, with the outer panes narrower than the others. The flanking bays are advanced and gabled, with the left bay being wider. The building has plain bargeboards with simple wooden pendentives, and there are further similar windows on both floors, along with simple 4-pane sashes in the attics. A plain, broad stucco string course runs between the principal floors.
In front of the central entrance bay, there is a modern porch that extends into the flanking bays; it is part-glazed and has a hipped roof. At the rear, there is a large projecting storeyed range with similar fenestration and a full-height canted bay with a hipped roof at the gable end. The interior of the hotel has been modernized and is plain.
Local climate
Pengwern Arms Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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