Snowdon Ranger Station is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1999. Former railway station.
Snowdon Ranger Station
- WRENN ID
- rusted-plinth-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1999
- Type
- Former railway station
- Address
- Snowdon Ranger Station, Lyn Cwellyn, Betws Garmon, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 564 551
- Coordinates
- 53.07406, -4.1436
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Snowdon Ranger Station is a former railway station built from roughly coursed rubblestone. It features a hipped slate roof with an internal yellow brick chimney on the right slope. On the track side, there are recessed 16-pane fixed light windows with slate cills located to the left and right of a central 4-panel door. The building was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Snowdon Ranger Station sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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