Tan-y-Fron is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1995. House.
Tan-y-Fron
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-string-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tan-y-Fron, Barmouth
- OS grid reference
- SH 614 157
- Coordinates
- 52.72165, -4.05315
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Tan-y-Fron is a building constructed of dressed stone, featuring a recently renewed slate roof with overhanging eaves. It has a large stack on the left side, which has a simply moulded capping and weather coursing. There is a single modern skylight on the right side.
The building has a front with four windows, arranged as three units. The three units consist of two bays each, with the central unit having two windows and the flanking units having one window each. The outer units have entrances at the extreme ends. The doors are recessed and contemporary, featuring six flush panels, with the right door having a boarded lower section. The two right-hand units have rectangular fanlights with lozenge glazing. The ground and first floors have contemporary, slightly recessed 16-pane sash windows with flat arches and projecting slate sills, while the second floor has similar 9-pane windows.
In front of Tan-y-Fron, on the right side, there is a single-storey modern garage.
Local climate
Tan-y-Fron sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
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