Governor House of the Old Gas Works is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. House.
Governor House of the Old Gas Works
- WRENN ID
- frozen-plinth-elder
- 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
- House
- Address
- Governor House of the Old Gas Works, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 728 178
- Coordinates
- 52.74357, -3.88454
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Governor House of the Old Gas Works is a low, small, single-storey building made of coursed rubble. It features a canted left-hand corner and has a hipped slate roof with close eaves. On the right side, there is a round-arched window with stone voussoirs and a 9-pane fixed light window. To the left, the canted corner has a round-arched doorway with stone voussoirs and a modern plank door.
Local climate
Governor House of the Old Gas Works 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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