Premises of Raynor Opticians is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Commercial building.
Premises of Raynor Opticians
- WRENN ID
- buried-marble-winter
- 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
- Commercial building
- Address
- Premises of Raynor Opticians, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 727 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74224, -3.88568
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The premises of Raynor Opticians is a two and a half storey building dating from the late 19th century, featuring two windows. It is constructed of coursed rubble masonry and has a moderately pitched slate roof with plain eaves and close verges. The building includes stone stacks and water tabling.
At the top storey, there are gabled stone dormers with moulded bargeboards. The Victorian sash windows have stone lintels and sills, and similar windows are present on the first floor. The ground floor showcases a late 19th-century shopfront with pedimented fascia ends and Tuscan pilasters, along with a deep modern fascia. The central entrance is recessed and features a half-glazed door. The shop windows are accented by slender turned rods at the corners and modern stallrisers.
To the left, there is a domestic doorway with a deep rectangular fanlight that has diamond and marginal glazing bars. The door is a six-panel design, with the upper panels being glazed, and is topped by a stone lintel.
Local climate
Premises of Raynor Opticians 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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