23 Sgwar y Farchnad (High Street) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1951. Row of houses.
23 Sgwar y Farchnad (High Street)
- WRENN ID
- gentle-lantern-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1951
- Type
- Row of houses
- Address
- 23 Sgwar y Farchnad (High Street), Tremadog, Porthmadog
- OS grid reference
- SH 562 402
- Coordinates
- 52.94004, -4.1406
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
23 Sgwar y Farchnad, also known as 19-23 High Street in Tremadog, is a row of three houses, each with two windows, three storeys, an attic, and a basement. They are constructed from large blocks of local quarried stone arranged in regular courses, featuring large stone lintels. The roofs have been renewed with slate and include skylights, along with two stone ridge stacks and a pebble-dashed stack at the left end.
Each house has its entrance above street level, accessed via slate steps leading to a doorway on the right side. Number 19 has a replacement panel door with an overlight and 4-pane horned sash windows. On the left side, there are steps leading down to a central replacement half-glazed basement door, with a replacement window to its left. Number 21 features a replacement half-glazed door with an overlight and 2-pane sash windows. Steps lead down to a replacement half-glazed basement door, accompanied by a replacement window to its left. Number 23 has a panel door beneath a late 19th-century overlight and 2-pane horned sash windows. Steps lead down to a replacement half-glazed basement door and a replacement window. The left gable end of number 19 is pebble-dashed.
This row of houses is part of a group at 19-23 High Street, Tremadog.
Local climate
23 Sgwar y Farchnad (High Street) 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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