Ken Davies Newsagent is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 December 2001. House and shop. 3 related planning applications.
Ken Davies Newsagent
- WRENN ID
- silent-footing-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 December 2001
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- Ken Davies Newsagent, 42 High Street, Bala, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 926 360
- Coordinates
- 52.91088, -3.59727
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ken Davies Newsagent is a three-storey late Georgian house and shop, forming part of a terrace. It is built from local rubble with a slate roof and end chimneys, featuring plain cornicing. The shop front, dating from the 20th century, has large plain-glazed windows on either side of an off-centre entrance to the left. On the first floor, there are two Victorian canted wooden bay windows with moulded cornices; the left bay has a dentilated cornice, with 6-pane sashes, while the right bay has plain 4-pane sashes. The second floor also features plain 4-pane sashes. The shop interior has been modernised.
Local climate
Ken Davies Newsagent sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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