Former Agricultural Merchants is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Commercial building.

Former Agricultural Merchants

WRENN ID
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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
Commercial building
Address
Former Agricultural Merchants, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 728 178
Coordinates
52.74345, -3.88435
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Former Agricultural Merchants is a three-storey commercial building with warehouses at the rear, dating from the 19th century. It features two gabled bays, with a broad stock brick bay on the left and a narrower bay on the right made of snecked masonry. The building has slate roofs and bargeboards, with Victorian sash windows in the gables. The left bay has cambered brick voussoirs, while the right bay has a stone lintel. A plain cornice runs above the shop windows on the first floor of the brick bay, which also has plain pilasters. There are three-light shop windows flanking a central two-light window, and a Victorian sash window in the stone bay to the right. The ground floor of the brick bay has a shop front with a missing blind box and plain pilasters, featuring three-light shop windows and a central doorway with double four flush panel doors. The stone bay to the right has a similar doorway with a stone lintel.

The rear elevation facing Smithfield Lane is also three storeys with two gabled sections, constructed of coursed rubble masonry. It has steeply pitched slate roofs with close verges. There is a loading door on the second floor to the right, which is a plank door with a stone lintel, topped with a gabled winch hood that is slate hung. The left bay features a Victorian sash window, while both bays have loading doors on the first floor, which are plank doors with stone lintels. The ground floor on the right has a broad doorway with plank double doors that have vents at the top and a deep stone lintel. The left bay is similar but includes a window at the extreme left, with a stone lintel and sill, though it has modern glazing.

Local climate

Former Agricultural Merchants 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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