Spar Shop and house is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1951. Shop, house. 1 related planning application.
Spar Shop and house
- WRENN ID
- odd-cobalt-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1951
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Spar Shop and house, 13-15 Sgwar Y Farchnad (Market Square), Tremadog, Porthmadog, LL49 9RB
- OS grid reference
- SH 562 401
- Coordinates
- 52.93925, -4.14113
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a two-storey shop and house, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of roughly coursed and squared quarried stone, with a slate roof that is hipped to the right-hand side. The building has projecting boarded eaves facing Market Square and slated eaves facing Church Street, where there are two skylights. A stone stack is located on the Market Square elevation.
The Market Square facade features a recessed replacement door on the left-hand side, which is beneath an overlight. To the right of this is a large modern shop window, followed by a vertical joint indicating the presence of an earlier doorway. Further to the right is a glazed door flanked by shop windows. Both shop windows have modern rubble below the sills, suggesting the presence of earlier, larger openings and shop fronts. A modern painted fascia extends across the entire shop front. The upper storey of the Market Square elevation contains two four-pane, horned sash windows on the left side, with a single six-pane, hornless sash window to the right.
The Church Street elevation has a large shop window on the left side, with replacement glazing in what was an earlier opening. A blocked doorway and another blocked doorway to the right have been converted into a window, although it was likely originally a window and part of the adjoining property at No. 1 Church Street. The upper storey of this elevation has two six-pane, hornless sash windows. The property was not inspected internally.
Local climate
Spar Shop 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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