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

Maes Caled

WRENN ID
under-corner-crimson
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
Maes Caled, 3 Towyn Road, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 722 177
Coordinates
52.74184, -3.89314
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Maes Caled is a 1.5 storey building featuring a three-window elevation with a gable at the center. It is constructed from coursed rubble masonry and has a moderately pitched slate roof with deep eaves and exposed purlins supported by brackets with corbels. The building has twin diagonal stone flue stacks set on a rectangular base with water tabling.

To the left, there is a raking dormer with two-light casement windows. The gable features a canted oriel supported by a moulded stone bracket and topped with a fishscale slate roof, which has modern glazing. At the center, there is a Victorian Gothic open gabled timber porch with stone sidewalls. This porch has paired Tudor arches, a billet moulded tie-beam, scalloped bargeboards, and fishscale slates. The entrance consists of paired, diagonally planked Victorian doors adorned with decorative straps.

Above the porch, there is a moulded returned label over three round arched lights of a dressed stone window to the left, and a similar label over a modern window to the right. To the extreme right, there is another two-light dressed stone window. The right gable end features a cambered arched three-light window with round arched lights.

On the left side, there is an ashlar closed porch with a shouldered gable parapet on kneelers above a pointed doorway, which has a datestone from 1832 at the apex. The roof is covered in fishscale slates, and to the right of the doorway, there is a two-light mullion and transom window with a label above. Ashlar gatepiers with stepped caps mark the location of a former gateway to the left.

Local climate

Maes Caled 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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