Snowdon Wharf is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 April 1974. House.
Snowdon Wharf
- WRENN ID
- quiet-sentry-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Snowdon Wharf, Porthmadog
- OS grid reference
- SH 570 383
- Coordinates
- 52.92318, -4.12827
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Snowdon Wharf, located at the northeast end by Britannia Bridge, features a wharf built on bedrock. The structure includes an L-shaped section, which is the earliest part of the wharf, and a later section that is 130 meters long, running from northeast to southwest. Both sections are constructed with battered walls made of large, roughly dressed stone blocks arranged in regular courses. The northeast end has a later stone parapet. At the angle south of the Ffestiniog Railway station, the road is supported by a concrete beam. The earlier section of the wharf is recessed at the end and includes stone steps. At the southwest end, there is a short return wall leading into the bank.
Local climate
Snowdon Wharf 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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- Sale history — 49 transactions since 1996
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