Barclays Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1951. Commercial premises. 4 related planning applications.
Barclays Bank
- WRENN ID
- mired-pedestal-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Barclays Bank, 68 &7 High Street, Bala, Gwynedd, LL23 7AD
- OS grid reference
- SH 925 359
- Coordinates
- 52.91011, -3.5988
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Barclays Bank is a three-storey house and commercial premises constructed of rubble with a later stucco facade. It features a slate roof and large flanking rubble chimneys. The building has a three-bay elevation with modern bank openings on the ground floor. The first and second floor windows are Victorian 6-pane sashes, each with projecting stucco keyblocks and lintels. The second storey windows also have moulded stucco architraves, and there is a moulded stringcourse between the floors, along with a moulded cornice and parapet at the roofline. The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Barclays Bank 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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