Browsers Bookshop and house is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 September 2005. Bookshop, house. 2 related planning applications.
Browsers Bookshop and house
- WRENN ID
- worn-garret-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 September 2005
- Type
- Bookshop, house
- Address
- Browsers Bookshop and house, 73 Stryd Fawr (High St), Porthmadog, LL49 9EU
- OS grid reference
- SH 568 387
- Coordinates
- 52.92682, -4.13111
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Browsers Bookshop and house is a three-storey building with two windows, constructed from squared stone blocks arranged in regular courses and painted white. It features a slate roof and has a pebble-dashed stack on the right and an original shared stone stack on the left. The house entrance is located on the right side of the lower storey, elevated above street level and accessed by stone steps. This entrance has a fielded-panel door with an overlight. The shop area includes shallow bay windows with two panes each, flanking a central recessed half-lit fielded-panel door that has similar panels to its left and an overlight above. A cornice with a moulded billet frieze runs over the shop front, topped by an awning.
In the middle and upper storeys, the windows are offset to the right, featuring 12-pane horned sashes in the middle storey and shorter 9-pane sashes in the upper storey. The right gable end, which faces Capel Salem, is slate-hung above a cement-rendered lower storey. The rear of the building includes a one-storey flat-roof projection, above which are small-pane sash windows, including a stair window on the left. The property has not been inspected.
Local climate
Browsers Bookshop and house 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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