5 Finsbury Square is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. House.

5 Finsbury Square

WRENN ID
under-ledge-crag
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
House
Address
5 Finsbury Square, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 727 177
Coordinates
52.74198, -3.8869
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

5 Finsbury Square is a two-storey house with a cellar and two windows. It is constructed of coursed rubble masonry and features a moderately pitched slate roof with plain close eaves. The stone stack has a moulded cap and water tabling.

The house has Victorian sash windows positioned below the eaves, with a larger similar window on the ground floor to the left, which has a stone lintel above it. There is a cellar opening below the ground floor.

To the right, there is a doorway with a stone lintel and a shallow rectangular fanlight above it.

Local climate

5 Finsbury Square 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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