Formerly known as Maentwrog Inn, the Grapes Hotel, restaurant and public house is built in the Georgian style characteristic of the early phases of improvement by the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate and dates from the early nineteenth century. The hotel is built on a T-shaped plan, two storeys high on the roadside (east) elevation and three storeys on the west side where the ground slopes away. The walls are of coursed stone, with a large stone lintel across each of the ground floor openings, under a slate roof with overhanging eaves. Other features include a large stone ridge chimney stack, a flat roofed porch on timber piers and at the south end of the range a round-headed arched carriage entrance that leads through to the rear of the terrace.
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 19 August 2009.