Chick King (including 80 Ambrose Street) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. A Georgian Residential building. 2 related planning applications.
Chick King (including 80 Ambrose Street)
- WRENN ID
- western-lantern-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1988
- Type
- Residential building
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Chick King (including 80 Ambrose Street), 8 Beach Road, Hirael, Bangor, LL57 1DG
- OS grid reference
- SH 587 726
- Coordinates
- 53.23212, -4.11784
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Chick King, including 80 Ambrose Street, is a late Georgian, two-storey building featuring three-window rubble elevations that are symmetrical on the main front. It has a slate roof and brick chimney stacks, with 12-pane sash windows, some of which are horned. The main elevation has modern shop front canopies and a central six-panel door with a voussoir lintel beneath a slate plaque. This plaque commemorates John Richards, a composer who lived in this house from 1834 to 1901, and it was unveiled on August 5, 1943. There is also a six-panel door on Ambrose Street, which has a diamond panelled fanlight.
Local climate
Chick King (including 80 Ambrose Street) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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