Francesca, Studio One is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Studio.
Francesca, Studio One
- WRENN ID
- secret-passage-rain
- 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
- Studio
- Address
- Francesca, Studio One, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 728 178
- Coordinates
- 52.74358, -3.88537
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Francesca, Studio One is a three-storey building featuring a canted corner entrance, constructed from snecked rubble masonry. The roof is hipped and covered with slate, with oversailing eaves and a stone stack.
On the second floor, there are two Victorian sash windows set under the eaves facing Bridge Street. The first floor has two rectangular oriel windows, each with hipped slate roofs, corniced tops, and vertically paned Victorian sashes. The canted corner features a Victorian sash window with a stone lintel.
The ground floor boasts a good contemporary shopfront, which includes a continuous dentil cornice that is advanced to form brackets under the oriels. The shopfront has a plain fascia with sympathetic modern lettering, and reeded pilasters with console brackets flanking all openings. To the extreme left, there is a doorway with a deep rectangular fanlight and a panelled door. A former doorway in the centre has been converted into a window, but the rectangular fanlight has been retained. There are two light shop windows on either side of the oriels, with rubble stallrisers.
Additionally, there is a doorway at the canted corner with tongue and groove boarded reveals and a modern door. The shopfront extends to Heol y Dwr, featuring a single light shop window and similar pilasters. There is also a Victorian sash window under the eaves on the second floor and two deeper, similar windows on the first floor.
Local climate
Francesca, Studio One 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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