Aber Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Former houses.

Aber Cafe

WRENN ID
sombre-solder-ebony
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
Former houses
Address
Aber Cafe, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 728 179
Coordinates
52.74387, -3.88477
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Aber Cafe is a two-storey building with five windows, originally consisting of three houses. It features coursed rubble masonry and has a moderately pitched slate roof with plain eaves and close verges. The front pitch includes four roof skylights. There is a rectangular stone chimney stack on the left and a square stack set forward of the ridge on the right, both with water tabling and moulded caps.

The first floor has Victorian sash windows with stone lintels, and to the left, there is a group of four brace discs. The ground floor on the left has a later 19th-century shopfront, which includes a nameboard and plain outer pilasters. The shop window to the left has modern glazing and a rubble stallriser, with a pair of doors to the right. In the centre, there are two Victorian sash windows that were formerly doorways, both with stone lintels. A simple cornice is present above the Victorian sash shop window on the extreme right.

Local climate

Aber Cafe 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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