The Grapes Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. Hotel, public house, restaurant.
The Grapes Hotel
- WRENN ID
- gentle-granite-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- Hotel, public house, restaurant
- Address
- The Grapes Hotel, Maentwrog, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 664 405
- Coordinates
- 52.9459, -3.98868
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Grapes Hotel is a hotel, restaurant, and public house built in the Georgian style during the early phases of improvement by the estate. It features coursed stone masonry, including a massive stone lintel across the ground floor openings. The building has a slate roof with overhanging eaves and a large stone ridge stack. It is designed in a T-shaped plan with dripstones and capping.
The main elevation faces the street to the east and consists of a two-storey, six-window range. The doorway is offset to the left (south) and is sheltered by a flat-roofed porch supported by timber piers. The windows are 12-pane hornless sashes with slate sills. At the far left (south) end of this range is a round-headed arch that serves as a carriage entrance leading to the rear of the terrace.
The north gable return is a two-storey structure with an attic, featuring a three-window range and a door at the far left (east) under a deep overlight with interlaced glazing bars. The attic windows are unequal sashes with nine panes. At the rear, the ground falls away, and this range extends to three storeys with attics. The first floor has a glazed balcony, and the attic windows are shallow six-pane hornless sashes set beneath the eaves.
There is a storeyed block at the northwest corner of the range, which has another storeyed block at its northwest corner. A slate-roofed verandah is built in the angle between the two blocks to the southwest. Both blocks have modern windows along the rear (west) elevation, with the latter being a roughly mirrored pair of cottages that have doorways at the centre of the range and modern timber casement windows.
The interior has been somewhat modernised but still retains elements of the early layout.
Local climate
The Grapes Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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