Former Diffwys Railway Station (now public toilets) is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 June 1988. Former railway station.

Former Diffwys Railway Station (now public toilets)

WRENN ID
iron-chapel-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 June 1988
Type
Former railway station
Address
Former Diffwys Railway Station (now public toilets), Blaenau Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 702 459
Coordinates
52.99491, -3.93464
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former Diffwys Railway Station, now serving as public toilets, is a small, single-storey building with a symmetrical front and outer gabled wings. It is constructed of snecked rubble with dressed quoins and a moulded string course above the central openings, featuring yellow brick surrounds. The slate roof displays a fish-scale pattern, complemented by clay ridge tiles and red and yellow patterned brick stacks. The bargeboards are adorned with ironwork cusping.

Above the recessed boarded doorways, which have modern doors, are slate gable plaques featuring the Prince of Wales feathers, carved by Robert Roberts, a poet and carver. The central section includes a modern arched entrance for disabled access, flanked by original sash windows. There are arched doorways at the blocked inner angles, matched by an oculus above the ticket opening, which has a slate cill. Modern Victorian-style bracketed lamps are positioned above the doors. The forecourt is paved with modern brick and features iron bollards. At the rear, there is a single opening with a toothed surround and double boarded doors, while the west gable end has a Gothic-headed sash window.

Local climate

Former Diffwys Railway Station (now public toilets) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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