Bandstand and Adjoining Flight of Descending Steps (the Hercules Steps) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 August 2002. Bandstand.
Bandstand and Adjoining Flight of Descending Steps (the Hercules Steps)
- WRENN ID
- dusted-garret-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 August 2002
- Type
- Bandstand
- OS grid reference
- SH 589 371
- Coordinates
- 52.91316, -4.09927
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Bandstand is a single-storey classical loggia situated above a substation basement. It features rendered elevations and a shallow hipped metal roof. The structure has three bays on the long sides and two bays on the short sides, with round-headed arches that include impost bands, keys, and circular spandrel plaques. The entrance is located at the center of the inward-facing northwest long side, while the remaining arches display cast-iron decorative mermaid panels in their lower halves.
Adjacent to the bandstand on the east are the Hercules Steps, which consist of a long flight of broad, stone-flagged steps that descend in three straight flights down the hillslope. The steps end at a part-balustraded parapet wall with a stepped waterfall below, overlooking Anchor and Fountain and the lawns in front of them.
Local climate
Bandstand and Adjoining Flight of Descending Steps (the Hercules Steps) 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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