Description
1. A mid-19th century hotel of 3 storeys plus attics. Though of a late date this has a good monumental stucco facade with stone quoins. Slate roof and moulded brick stacks. 10 windows, the lower lights unbarred. The 2nd storey windows have pediments alternately curved and pointed on console brackets. The lower and upper storey windows have moulded cornices (except the upper central pair, which are featured with pediments). Later small porch to the right hand. Moulded wood bracketed eaves rising to a central gable. To the attic are 8 hipped dormers with sashes and curved moulded wood pediments.
Associated with Corbett Arms Hotel Outbuilding (Nprn 54185)
Source: ME/DOM/SH50SE, from the Cadw Listed Buildings Database
J. Archer, RCAHMW, 31.12.2004
2. The Corbett Arms Hotel (or Corbett and Raven Arms Hotel), Tywyn, was likely constructed in the early nineteenth century, or perhaps near the end of the eighteenth century. It was established before 1827 at least, as the dissolution of a bankrupt's estate was held there in November of that year. The Cadw Listing for the site notes that `It is mentioned as the town's principal hotel in 1833?. It is shown on the 1841 Tithe map where it is noted as part of the Corbet estate and occupied by one Perry William. An image of the hotel, taken by John Thomas in c.1885 shows a relatively plain structure of six bays and two-and-a-half storeys with plain sash windows, prominent corbelling to corners. It was surrounded by low iron railings with its entrance in the fifth bay under a hipped-roof canopy supported by pillars and topped with a ball finial.
The hotel was significantly remodelled and extended in 1899-1900, as part of wider advancements of the town in the period, to the plans of the architect D. Gillart. The renovated structure is ten bays and three-and-a-half storeys, with pediments added over the earlier sash windows and four pedimented dormers on either side of a central gable. The central gable contains a coat of arms under a triangular pediment. The spirit of the older structure is still visible, however, especially in the prominent corbelling to corners and entrance porch in the ninth (formerly fifth) bay ? a twentieth-century glazed porch under a hipped slate roof.
(Sources: Cadw Listing Description, Ref No. 4643; NLW Picture, John Thomas 1509B; Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 721; places.library.wales; newspapers.library.wales (`Notice to Creditors?, North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality, 15.11.1927, p. 1; `Towyn?, Towyn-on-Sea and Merioneth County Times, 6.7.1899, p. 3; `Towyn?, Towyn-on-Sea and Merioneth County Times 18.01.1900, p. 6))
A.N. Coward, RCAHMW, 18.10.2019