The Sail Loft is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 September 2005. Sail loft.

The Sail Loft

WRENN ID
brooding-mullion-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 September 2005
Type
Sail loft
Address
The Sail Loft, Porthmadog
OS grid reference
SH 571 384
Coordinates
52.92465, -4.12617
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Sail Loft is a 2-storey building constructed from rubble stone, featuring larger quoins and dressings, with some parts rendered. The roof is slate and hipped to the left, including a skylight, and has a roughcast chimney stack on the right. On the lower storey, there are wide boarded doors in the center, flanked by a 16-pane sash window on the left, a shuttered window on the right, and a boarded door at the right end where the ground level is slightly elevated. In the upper storey, there is a boarded loading door offset to the left of center, situated under a projecting gable that once had a pulley. There are shuttered openings on both the right and left sides. The rear of the building has two replacement windows, a central boarded door, and an overlight. The building has not been inspected.

Local climate

The Sail Loft 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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