Alliance & Leicester and Abby National Building Societies is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1989. House - terrace.
Alliance & Leicester and Abby National Building Societies
- WRENN ID
- keen-roof-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1989
- Type
- House - terrace
- Address
- Alliance & Leicester and Abby National Building Societies, 36 High Street, Pwllheli
- OS grid reference
- SH 375 352
- Coordinates
- 52.88986, -4.4156
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building housing the Alliance & Leicester and Abbey National Building Societies is a broad, three-storey structure with a five-window facade, finished in stucco and topped with a slate roof featuring bracket eaves. The first and second floors have 12-pane sash windows, although the windows in the fourth bay are blocked. Above the main entrance, which is slightly left of center, there are French windows that once opened onto a balcony. The ground floor has been modernized, featuring high transoms above windows of varying widths. The window to the right is set within a segmental arched former carriage entry, complete with quoins, voussoirs, and keystones; this entry may have been converted into a narrow doorway at some point, as a step remains. The Abbey National fascia includes a six-panel door with a raised and moulded surround.
The rear of the building is finished in cement render and has modern windows overlooking what was once a cobbled yard, with steps leading down to the cellar.
Inside, the building retains panelled shutters and six-panel doors, while the staircase features turned balusters at the newel post. The main room, which used to open onto the balcony, showcases particularly lavish details, including Gothic embossed patterning on the rear panels of the door and a highly ornate cast-iron pelmet that is quite unusual.
Local climate
Alliance & Leicester and Abby National Building Societies 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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