Photo: David Medcalf · CC BY-SA 2.0Old homes in Carmel: 77% built before 1919
Against 15% in the typical town, Carmel has 5 times the share. Cadw lists 2 buildings inside Carmel’s built-up area, 62 for every 10,000 residents.
Where Carmel’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
2 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 2 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
77% of Carmel’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
75% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 10% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Carmel
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmel | 321 | 2 | 0 | — |
| Penygroes | 1,793 | 8 | 0 | B |
| Caernarfon | 9,831 | 250 | 7 | A+ |
| Llanrug | 1,537 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Llanberis | 1,838 | 13 | 0 | A− |
| Bethel | 1,091 | 4 | 0 | B− |
| Clwt-y-bont | 1,385 | 2 | 0 | B− |
| Y Felinheli | 2,333 | 19 | 0 | A− |
Carmel in brief
Old houses are part of Carmel’s character: 77% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 2 listed buildings. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: all its entries went on the list in 1999.
Questions about Carmel’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Carmel?
Cadw lists 2 buildings inside Carmel’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 2 Grade II.
How old are the homes in Carmel?
77% of homes were built before 1919 and 80% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Carmel has no History Grade.
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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