Gyffin Community Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1981. Community centre.
Gyffin Community Centre
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-niche-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- Community centre
- OS grid reference
- SH 776 768
- Coordinates
- 53.27487, -3.83576
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Gyffin Community Centre is a former church hall built in the Arts and Crafts style. It is a single-storey building with whitened pebble-dashed brick walls resting on a rubble-stone plinth, topped by a slate roof featuring a chevron pattern of lighter slates. A central turret with a snuffer top sits over a diamond-shaped base, all made of banded slates. The building faces north and includes a main range with a gabled bay on the left side, as well as a lower gabled north wing that has a brick stack. All gables are slate-hung above the window level.
The entrance is located in the left side wall of the north wing, accessible via slate steps with a stone parapet. It features double doors, which have been modified with boarding added to the original panel doors, set in a full-height broadly chamfered opening. The gable end of the north wing has a small-pane window with a top-hung casement. To the left, the gabled bay of the main range features a similar window. On the right side of the wing, there is a small outshut with a boarded door and a round-headed louvered opening on the side wall.
The west gable end of the main range includes a large small-pane window with casements. The east end wall has a central buttress that is offset. The south wall features a pebble-dashed lean-to with a boarded door on its right side, flanked by narrow windows in the main range. The wide gabled bay to the right has a large small-pane window with casements.
Inside the main range, there is a dado of glazed brick and tile, along with original cupboard doors on the north side. The centre features original folding half-glazed panel doors, with small-pane glazing above a beam. Roof trusses are concealed by a plasterboard ceiling on the underside of the roof.
Local climate
Gyffin Community Centre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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