Central Buildings (formerly known as Meyrick House) is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Building.
Central Buildings (formerly known as Meyrick House)
- WRENN ID
- stony-barrel-equinox
- 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
- Building
- Address
- Central Buildings (formerly known as Meyrick House), Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 728 178
- Coordinates
- 52.74285, -3.88544
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Central Buildings, formerly known as Meyrick House, is a four-storey building with a cellar, featuring classical details. The front is constructed of snecked rubble with freestone dressings, topped by a hipped slate roof with deep boarded eaves supported by modillions. The building has stone stacks on bases with moulded caps.
On the third floor, there are four round-arched windows with stressed keystones, rusticated architraves, and a sill band, all fitted with Victorian sashes. The second floor has two tripartite windows with triangular pediments, plain pilasters, and plain sashes, along with a sill band. The first floor also features two tripartite windows with round arches, stressed keystones, plain pilasters, and plain sashes, all set on stone sills. The ground floor has a modern shopfront.
The south side of the building has two tiers of Victorian sash windows with stone lintels. A gablet with a loading door is located over the tier to the left, while the tier to the right is canted back at the corner.
At the rear, there is a four-storey outshut with a loading door to the second floor on the south side. This area includes a stone platform with iron railings and a ladder equipped with security hoops. Small sash windows are present on the third and first floors, along with a doorway on the ground floor, all featuring stone lintels. The rear elevation of the outshut has two tiers of Victorian sashes, and there is a tier of larger Victorian sashes on the rear of the main building to the right, positioned over a lean-to closed porch with a modern door and a slate roof.
Local climate
Central Buildings (formerly known as Meyrick House) 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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