The Oakleys is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 April 1974. House, hotel.
The Oakleys
- WRENN ID
- waiting-niche-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1974
- Type
- House, hotel
- Address
- The Oakleys, Porthmadog
- OS grid reference
- SH 569 384
- Coordinates
- 52.92462, -4.1292
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Oakleys is a former house and hotel dating from the 18th century. It is a two-storey building with three bays, plus an additional bay set back to the left, which was originally an office. The structure is built from large blocks of coursed local stone that have been painted white, and it features a hipped slate roof that incorporates bands of fish-scale and diamond slates. There are two rendered stacks on the main house and an end stack on the office.
The former eastern entrance front has a one-storey flat-roofed projection, above which are four-pane sash windows. This flat-roof extension extends across the one-bay office set back to the left, which has a two-pane sash window in the upper storey. The end wall of the office has two replacement upper-storey windows.
The northern front, which has more recently been used as the entrance, also consists of three bays and features two-pane sash windows. The right-hand bay has an inserted entrance that is accessed through a shallow flat-roof half-glazed porch with a glazed door. The rear of the building, facing west, is slate hung and displays diamond-pattern slates in the upper storey. It has a central replacement window in the lower storey and a two-pane sash window above. Set back to the right, the rear of the office is rendered and includes an added one-storey lean-to. The building has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Oakleys 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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