Sunday Newsagents is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Shop.
Sunday Newsagents
- WRENN ID
- bitter-pier-raven
- 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
- Shop
- Address
- Sunday Newsagents, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 728 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74249, -3.88467
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Sunday Newsagents is an irregular, angular corner building dating from the 19th century, with its gable end facing the square. It is one and a half storeys tall and features one window. The exterior is constructed from coursed rubble masonry and topped with a steeply pitched quarry slate roof that has oversailing eaves, deep verges, and plain bargeboards. There is a stone stack on the rear pitch.
The gable end has a 16-pane sash window with a slate lintel. The left corner of the building is canted to align with the street, featuring a shallow upper sash with a 9-pane window set beneath the eaves. The ground floor has a continuous modern fascia, with modern shop windows facing Upper Smithfield Street and Smithfield Square, alongside a modern door.
Local climate
Sunday Newsagents 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- No related consent applications matched
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