The Old Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Bank.
The Old Bank
- WRENN ID
- tattered-lead-violet
- 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
- Bank
- Address
- The Old Bank, 2 Lombard Street, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 726 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74247, -3.88779
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Bank is a three-storey building featuring a window offset to the left. It is constructed of coursed rubble masonry and has a gently pitched quarry slate roof with close eaves and projecting verges. A stone stack and water tabling are also present. There is a blocked window set under the eaves on the second floor, while the first floor has a deep window with a stone lintel and sill. Above the tall recessed doorway, there is a slate drip slab and a stone lintel, with a plain rectangular fanlight and a panelled door. Slate steps lead down to the street.
To the right end, there is a later lean-to outshut, also built of rubble masonry and covered with a slate roof, featuring a drip course. The building is advanced on the left window of the rear elevation compared to the adjoining "No 1 Old Bank," with the right corner canted back. The roof has an unusual diagonal hip with a mortared ridge. The second floor has a shallow eight-pane sash window set under the eaves, while the first floor has a deep eight-pane casement window, both with stone lintels and sills. A doorway is located below these windows.
A rubble wall, two meters tall with ridged rubble and stone capping, connects to the former Police Station. This wall is pierced by doorways alongside "No 2 Old Bank" and midway, featuring plank doors.
Local climate
The Old Bank 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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