Siop Esgidiau is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Shop, offices. 1 related planning application.
Siop Esgidiau
- WRENN ID
- long-gateway-grain
- 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
- Shop, offices
- Address
- Siop Esgidiau, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, LL40 1ET
- OS grid reference
- SH 728 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74237, -3.88471
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Siop Esgidiau is a two or more storey building featuring a single window shopfront. It is constructed of rubble masonry and has a gently pitched roof made of quarry slate, with plain eaves and close verges. A broad gable has been added to the front, showcasing deep eaves, exposed purlins, and bargeboards. The building includes stone stacks and water tabling.
The gable features a modern window on the upper floor and a modern shopfront with a recessed central doorway. On the left end elevation, there is a tier of windows. The second floor has a six-pane sash window with a stone lintel, while the first floor has a similar twelve-pane sash window, and the ground floor features a modern window. The left corner of the building is canted back, but the eaves extend to the corner on lintels at the top.
Local climate
Siop Esgidiau 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2025
- 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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