Spar is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 June 2001. Commercial premises.
Spar
- WRENN ID
- ragged-rampart-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 June 2001
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Spar, Harlech, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 581 310
- Coordinates
- 52.85833, -4.10877
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Spar is a two-storey commercial building featuring a continuous ground-floor shop front and a three-window first floor. It is constructed of rubble with a whitened facade made of roughly-dressed, snecked, squared blocks. The medium-pitched slate roof has three irregularly-spaced ashlar chimneys, along with plain banding and capping. The shop front dates from the late 19th century or early 20th century and includes a modern signboard on a fascia with simply-moulded ends. There are two bay plain glazed panels on either side of a central entrance, and to the right, there is an entrance leading to the first floor, which has an original door with a two-panel glazed upper section and a plain rectangular overlight. The first floor features three recessed, 24-pane unhorned sash windows that are asymmetrically spaced.
To the left of the building, there is a short stretch of unwhitened rubble wall that stands approximately 3 meters high and includes an entrance with a modern door. The unwhitened rear facade has asymmetrical openings, with a tall 18-pane stair-light to the left and two 12-pane sash windows to the right on both floors; the upper floor windows have modern external wooden slatted shutters. The interior of the shop has been modernized.
Local climate
Spar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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