Maes Caled is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Residential building.
Maes Caled
- WRENN ID
- watchful-hinge-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
- Residential building
- Address
- Maes Caled, 4 Towyn Road, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 722 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74185, -3.89323
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Maes Caled is a 1.5 storey building featuring a three-window elevation with a gable at the center. It is constructed of coursed rubble masonry and has a moderately pitched slate roof with deep eaves and exposed purlins supported by brackets with corbels. The building includes twin diagonal stone flue stacks set on a rectangular base with water tabling.
On the left side, there is a raking dormer with two-light casement windows. The gable features a canted oriel supported by a moulded stone bracket, topped with a fishscale slate roof and modern glazing. A Victorian Gothic open gabled timber porch is located at the center, flanked by stone sidewalls. The porch has paired Tudor arches, a billet moulded tie-beam, scalloped bargeboards, and fishscale slates. The entrance consists of paired, diagonally planked Victorian doors adorned with decorative straps.
To the left, there is a dressed stone window with a moulded returned label over three round arched lights, and a similar label over a modern window to the right. The extreme right features a two-light dressed stone window. The right gable end has a cambered arched three-light window with round arched lights. An ashlar closed porch is located to the left, topped with a shouldered gable parapet on kneelers above a pointed doorway, which has a datestone from 1832 at its apex. The fishscale slate roof continues with a two-light mullion and transom window to the right, also featuring a label. Ashlar gatepiers with stepped caps mark the former gateway on the left.
Local climate
Maes Caled 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
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