Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1989. Town hall.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- nether-turret-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1989
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall, Pwllheli
- OS grid reference
- SH 374 351
- Coordinates
- 52.88929, -4.41711
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Town Hall is a three-storey building constructed from Ruabon brick, featuring subdued Neo-Baroque terracotta details. It has a pitched slate roof at the center, flanked by pale brick chimney stacks. The front of the building has five bays, with iron railings over a parapet that includes blind cartouche panels and end finials. The central bay is topped with a pediment and flanked by obelisk finials, with various band courses below. The building's symmetry is created by an alternating arrangement of windows, which are a mix of two and three lights, some with cross frames and ovolo mouldings. The outer first-floor bays have broad architraves, while the central second-floor window features bast strapwork volutes above the oriel, with a panelled parapet and an arched central light in an early 17th-century style, contemporary with the obelisks on the apron.
A broad round-arched entry is adorned with an iron lamp bracket and a giant decorative wrought iron tympanum that includes Art Nouveau touches. Cross frame windows flank the main entrance, with additional arched doorways in the outer bays, which have modern doors. The left side of the building is red brick extending back to the Tabernacle Chapel, then rendered. The right side mirrors these details with five plus one bays, and the central bay resembles the front but lacks an oriel. The left ground floor window is raised above a fleuron-decorated panel.
Inside, the main auditorium extends through the first and second floors, featuring a bowed gallery front supported by cast iron columns with foliage capitals. The front is richly ornamented in a classical style and displays the dated town crest and Prince of Wales feathers, along with ceiling ventilators. The building was renovated in 1955.
Local climate
Town Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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