4 Finsbury Square is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Coastguard station.
4 Finsbury Square
- WRENN ID
- small-panel-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1990
- Type
- Coastguard station
- Address
- 4 Finsbury Square, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 727 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74198, -3.88682
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
4 Finsbury Square is a two-storey building with a cellar, featuring one window and a canted back from the line of the terrace at the center of the front elevation. The exterior is made of coursed rubble masonry, topped with a moderately pitched slate roof that includes an iron skylight and plain close eaves. The stone stacks have simply moulded caps and water tabling.
On the upper floor, there is a shallow Victorian sash window set under the eaves. The ground floor has a similar but larger window, which is set beneath a stone lintel. The cellar opening is offset to the left and features a cambered arch cut into the stone lintel.
The doorway is positioned to the left, beyond the angle where the front cants back, and is topped with a stone lintel. It includes a shallow two-light rectangular fanlight, a modern door, and slate treads.
Local climate
4 Finsbury Square sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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