Former police Station is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 February 1952. Police station.
Former police Station
- WRENN ID
- sheer-terrace-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1952
- Type
- Police station
- Address
- Former police Station, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 726 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74224, -3.88781
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former police station is a two-storey building with three windows and a parallel rear range. It is constructed of squared, coursed rubble masonry with freestone dressings. The building features a steeply pitched slate roof that is hipped to the left but truncated on the right where a later house abuts. There is a stone stack at the left end. The rear range is similar in style and has a completed hipped roof. Notable architectural details include an ovolo moulded eaves cornice, rusticated quoins, and a plinth.
On the first floor, there are round-arched windows with rusticated architraves and 16-pane Gothic interlaced sashes. The ground floor features a similar window arrangement flanking a central doorway, which has a Gothic fanlight above a door with six fielded panels.
The rear range, which incorporates cells, is plainer, made of random coursed rubble masonry without an eaves cornice. It has rusticated round-arched architraves for the 12-pane sashes, which do not have interlacing. A similar window is present on the flank. At the rear, there is a high rubble wall that is flagstone capped, enclosing a small triangular yard.
The interior has been largely modernised for office accommodation.
Local climate
Former police Station 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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