Slate Direction Indicators is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1999. Indicator. 3 related planning applications.

Slate Direction Indicators

WRENN ID
heavy-spindle-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 January 1999
Type
Indicator
Address
Slate Direction Indicators, Rhyd-Ddu, Betws Garmon, Gwynedd, LL54 6TN
OS grid reference
SH 569 530
Coordinates
53.05512, -4.13572
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Slate direction indicators are narrow rectangular plaques made of slate stone. They are set one above the other under a slate drip in a stone boundary wall. The plaques read "PENYGROES 7" and "{LLANFIHANGEL 7 1/2M/ DOLBENMAEN 8 1/2M". Each plaque features incised hands with fingers pointing to the left.

Local climate

Slate Direction Indicators sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
  • 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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