Cornhill Wharf is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 April 1974. Wharf.

Cornhill Wharf

WRENN ID
old-pillar-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 April 1974
Type
Wharf
Address
Cornhill Wharf, Porthmadog
OS grid reference
SH 568 383
Coordinates
52.92337, -4.13039
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cornhill Wharf is an L-shaped quay constructed with large dressed stone blocks arranged in regular courses. It features battered sides and has three weathered stone mooring posts on the northwest side facing Cornhill. At the end of the northeast-southwest arm, there is a return wall leading to the slipway known as 'The Beach'. The northwest-southeast arm extends in front of the current Madoc Yacht Club and ends with stone steps. The Beach wall includes a later stone parapet.

Local climate

Cornhill Wharf 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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