II*Church · listed 1999Capel CochPhoto: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Gareth James · CC BY-SA 2.0A−History Grade
History of Llanberis · Cadw
Old homes in Llanberis: 60% built before 1919
Against 15% in the typical town, Llanberis has 4 times the share. Cadw lists 13 buildings inside Llanberis’s built-up area, 71 for every 10,000 residents. Llanberis grades A− for history.
Listed buildings
13
71 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
60%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Llanberis
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Llanberis’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
13 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*11 Grade II
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.
Grade II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Llanberis
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*Church · listed 1999St Padarn's ChurchOn the list as Church of St PadarnPhoto: Meirion · CC BY-SA 2.0
Grade II
11 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.
How the list grew
More than half of Llanberis’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1999
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1999 · 10
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 3 entries were listed in 1968. 10 came in 1999. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Llanberis grades A− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (15 points, 82 per 10,000 residents)More than 54% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (60%)More than almost every UK town
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Homes by age
60% of Llanberis’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
61%
Before 1900
1%
1900–18
0%
1919–29
2.1%
1930s
12%
1945–54
0%
1955–64
9.4%
1965–72
5.2%
1973–82
2.1%
1983–92
3.1%
1993–99
3.1%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
2.1%
2016–25
LlanberisEngland & Wales
61% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 12% 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.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Llanberis
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llanberis | 1,838 | 13 | 0 | A− |
| Clwt-y-bont | 1,385 | 2 | 0 | B− |
| Llanrug | 1,537 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Bethel | 1,091 | 4 | 0 | B− |
| Tregarth | 1,252 | 10 | 0 | A− |
| Bethesda | 3,757 | 37 | 1 | A |
| Y Felinheli | 2,333 | 19 | 0 | A− |
| Caernarfon | 9,831 | 250 | 7 | A+ |
In brief
Llanberis in brief
More of Llanberis’s homes are old than in most places: 60% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 13 listed buildings. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1999: 10 of 13. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Annie Foulkes (1877) and Elizabeth Rhŷs (1841) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Llanberis’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Llanberis?
Cadw lists 13 buildings inside Llanberis’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 11 Grade II.
When were Llanberis’s buildings listed?
The first in 1968; the most, 10, in 1999.
How old are the homes in Llanberis?
60% of homes were built before 1919 and 62% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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