Garden Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. Cottage.
Garden Cottage
- WRENN ID
- quiet-stair-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2001
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Garden Cottage, Rhiwlas, Bala, Llandderfel
- OS grid reference
- SH 925 372
- Coordinates
- 52.92182, -3.59986
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Garden Cottage and Bwthyn are a pair of one-and-a-half storey L-plan cottages built in an overall U-plan. Constructed of orange brick with slate roofs, they feature slate lintels and projecting sills. The cottages have brown brick end and shared central chimneys topped with 20th-century pots and flaunchings. Each unit has an off-centre entrance with a boarded door and a three-pane overlight, flanked by four-pane Victorian sash windows on both floors. The first-floor windows break the eaves and are set within broad gabled dormers that have simple bargeboards, with the central dormers being paired. Each cottage has a rear wing with single four-pane sashes on each floor, and a single-storey lean-to block runs along the back, connecting the projecting wings. The interior was not inspected during the survey.
Local climate
Garden Cottage 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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