No 64 Manod Road is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1996. Manse.
No 64 Manod Road
- WRENN ID
- patient-obsidian-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1996
- Type
- Manse
- Address
- No 64 Manod Road, Ffestiniog
- OS grid reference
- SH 705 447
- Coordinates
- 52.98477, -3.92985
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
No. 64 Manod Road is a former chapel, originally built as the Bethesda Methodist Chapel in 1819. It was known as St. Martin's Hall earlier this century when it served as a church hall, with a seating capacity for 750 people. The adjacent No. 64 was the former minister's house.
The chapel is a rectangular structure made of rubble with a shallow-pitched slate roof that has been renewed. It features a half-hipped gable at the front. The facade is symmetrical, consisting of two stories and three bays, with plain two-story rubble pilasters on the sides and separating the bays. The central entrance is arched and has a projecting keystone, with modern part-glazed doors. Tall, similarly arched flanking windows have fan glazing in the upper segments and plain late 19th-century glazing below, with projecting slate cills. The upper floor has small-paned arched windows with fan glazing, and the cills match those below. A plain slate string-course runs above, terminating the pilasters. The rear has a half-hipped roof and additional small-pane flat-arched windows arranged over four levels: two outer, two inner, two outer, and a central window at the apex.
Inside, there is a simple gallery on the roadside supported by plain cast-iron columns, accessed by a later 19th-century single-flight stair with turned balusters and a newel post. The interior features pine joinery throughout. At the time of inspection in June 1995, all windows on the upper floor except those facing the road were externally boarded.
The former minister's house, No. 64, is attached to the chapel, stepped down and set back. It is constructed similarly, with a plain gable end chimney on the right, plain capping, and weather coursing. The entrance features a part-glazed, four-panel Victorian door with arched, glazed upper panels, and there is a single window to the right on two floors, with plain 19th-century sashes that have been restored.
This chapel is noted for its unusual and restrained design from the early 19th century, situated prominently along the roadside.
Local climate
No 64 Manod Road sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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