Caradog Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Hotel.

Caradog Arms Hotel

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taf
Constituency
Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare MP: Gerald Jones (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 January 1991
Type
Hotel
Address
Caradog Arms Hotel, Aberdare East, Rhondda Cynon Taff
OS grid reference
SO 003 025
Coordinates
51.71314, -3.44386
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Caradog Arms Hotel is a three-storey building with a three-plus-four window arrangement. The front is rendered up to the second floor, rusticated at the first floor, and channelled at the ground floor, featuring sill bands and a plinth. It has a slate roof that is hipped at the right end, with bracketed eaves and cement-rendered chimney stacks at both ends. The left end has quoins, and the windows are adorned with keyblocked architraves that have deeply faceted keystones. Most windows are horned four-pane sash types, except for the centre window on the first floor, which is a casement. The sill band on the second floor to the right is stepped up, and the ground floor has more pronounced keystones. There is a broad central doorway and an additional door to the left, with two middle windows that have broad sills and panels below. A modern shop front for Radio Rentals is present but retains a 19th-century scribed end pilaster to the right. The right end features a splayed corner with similar detailing and windows, including a shop window in what was formerly a corner doorway. The side elevation has two windows and similar quoins at the far end, with a stepped-up first-floor sill band and shop windows flanked by scribed pilasters.

Local climate

Caradog Arms 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 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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