Minffordd Station is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 August 2002. Station. 2 related planning applications.
Minffordd Station
- WRENN ID
- ruined-gateway-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 August 2002
- Type
- Station
- Address
- Minffordd Station, Penrhyndeudraeth, LL48 6HF
- OS grid reference
- SH 600 385
- Coordinates
- 52.92599, -4.08383
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Minffordd Station is a railway station featuring a T-plan, which includes a two-storey stationmaster's house, an adjoining ticket office, and a covered platform with a refreshment room. The building is constructed from snecked slatestone with whitened sandstone quoins and dressings, topped with slate roofs that have projecting eaves and decorative bargeboards. A large, squat central chimney is located on the stationmaster's house, which has a single-bay gabled crosswing and a single-bay recessed main block.
On the track side (north), the house features plain glazed cross-windows, and there is a relief plaque of the Prince of Wales' Feathers in the gable apex. To the left (east), there is a single-storey, two-bay contemporary block with a four-panel door on the left; the upper panels are glazed, and there is a plain glazed overlight above it, along with a modern two-pane glazed window to the right. A low parapet wall runs in front of this recessed block, flush with the gable end.
The central part of the station has an open section flanked by single-bay stone bays, with windows similar to those previously described. The entire structure has a monopitch slate roof with a decorative fascia on the platform side. To the right, there is an advanced, hipped-roofed former refreshment room, which features a large window with modern glazing on the platform side and a three-light mullioned and transomed window on the gable end.
The road-facing elevation (south) is roughcast with expressed quoins and has 16-pane sash windows on both floors of the advanced gable. There is an extruded modern porch in the angle to the right, a cross-window above it, and modern glazing in the single-storey section adjoining to the right.
Local climate
Minffordd Station sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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