Eldon Row is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 February 1952. Terrace. 7 related planning applications.
Eldon Row
- WRENN ID
- buried-foundation-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1952
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- Eldon Row, 3 Eldon Square, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, LL40 1PS
- OS grid reference
- SH 727 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74262, -3.8859
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Eldon Row is a three-storey terrace of six houses, built in 1830. The houses are constructed of coursed squared rubble with steeply pitched slate roofs, close verges, and a cavetto eaves cornice. Six stone stacks, water tabling detail, are present. The terrace commemorates the anniversary of the Venerable Earl's birthday and the respect for Sir R W V, as marked by a commemorative slate tablet centrally located on the terrace.
The architectural style features shallow upper sash windows. The left-hand windows on the second floor have six panes and are set under the eaves. Vertical glazing bars are slightly thicker, creating a tripartite appearance. Similar windows with twenty panes are found on the first floor. All windows have stone sills and are topped with deep stone lintels. A continuous sill band runs across the front of the terrace, broken only over number 3. Later glazing bars are present on the windows of number 6 at the far right of the terrace.
Number 4 retains a largely original shopfront, featuring a central window, a plain entablature, fielded panelled pilasters, stone stallrisers, and a modern 20-pane window. Sunk panelled doorcases flank the window on either side; the left side features a rectangular fanlight with lattice glazing above a six-panel door with panelled internal splays, and the right side a modern glazed door under a plain rectangular fanlight. Stone steps lead down to the street.
Number 2 shares similar pilasters but has a later 19th-century butcher's shop window with a moulded cornice, a blind box, tiled stallrisers, a plain rectangular fanlight above the doorways, and six flush panel doors with panelled internal splays. Numbers 1 and 3 have been altered with broad modern shopfronts. Number 5 retains its original layout, with modern fittings; a six-panelled door survives on the left.
A window is positioned centrally on number 6, above a cellar opening, alongside a doorway and a more modern door. A former doorway has been converted into a window on the right side, with visible shutter pintles. The first floor sill band extends across the north gable end.
Local climate
Eldon Row 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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