Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 September 1964. A Georgian Town hall.
Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- brooding-garret-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 September 1964
- Type
- Town hall
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Town Hall, Bala, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 926 359
- Coordinates
- 52.91044, -3.59831
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Town Hall is a late Georgian building designed in a simplified classical style. It is constructed from rubble with buff-coloured sandstone dressings and features a hipped slate roof. The main part of the building is two storeys high and has five bays, arranged in a near-symmetrical layout, with a lower two-and-a-half storey single bay addition slightly set back to the right.
The principal section originally had an arcade with four round-headed arches on the ground floor, but this has been altered to include three windows and an entrance on the far left, all of which were boarded up during inspection. To the right, there is a slightly lower and narrower arched entrance, which likely provides access to the upper floor. This entrance features a six-panel square-headed door and a multi-pane fanlight above. The upper floor has five unhorned 20-pane sash windows with projecting stone sills and slate lintels, each with returned labels. A deep moulded sandstone cornice runs along the top.
At the center of the roof, there is a prominent clock tower consisting of a square lower section and an octagonal upper section, topped with a lead cupola and ball finial, along with a weathervane. The lower section has tile-hung sides and a large clock face on the front. An inscription below the clock indicates that the tower was added in 1868 in honor of John Jones of Tremynfa.
The right-hand bay, which is contemporary or nearly so, has a boarded ground floor window and a 16-pane horned sash window on the first floor, with a primary unhorned 9-pane sash window under the eaves above, all beneath a hipped slate roof.
The interior was not accessible during the survey.
Local climate
Town Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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