Visitor Centre at Beechwood House is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Visitor centre.
Visitor Centre at Beechwood House
- WRENN ID
- winding-bailey-bramble
- 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
- Visitor centre
- Address
- Visitor Centre at Beechwood House, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 728 179
- Coordinates
- 52.74412, -3.88518
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Visitor Centre at Beechwood House is a three-storey building with five windows, featuring snecked masonry on the front and end elevations. It has a moderately pitched slate roof that is hipped over the right end, with oversailing eaves, exposed purlins, and bargeboards. The chimney stacks are also made of snecked masonry.
On the second floor, there are Victorian sash windows set under the eaves, with cemented reveals. The first floor has similar windows with stone lintels above. The ground floor on the right side has a Victorian shopfront that includes a moulded cornice supported by scrolled brackets, sunk panelled pilasters, a doorcase to the right, and a nine-pane shop window to the left, along with a rubble stallriser. To the left, there is a doorway and three sash windows, all with stone lintels.
The right end elevation, which faces "Y Bont Fawr," is also three storeys high with two windows. It features Victorian sash windows on the second and first floors, and a small shop window on the ground floor, along with a moulded cornice on scrolled brackets and a four-pane window, sunk panelled pilasters, and a rubble stallriser.
At the rear, the right corner is canted back to reveal a lower three-storey gabled extension that is set below the eaves of the main building, giving it a three-window elevation. This extension also has Victorian sash windows with stone lintels, and there is a similar extension to the right on the rear.
Local climate
Visitor Centre at Beechwood House 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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