Bron-y-Garth Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 March 1990. Hospital.
Bron-y-Garth Hospital
- WRENN ID
- burning-floor-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1990
- Type
- Hospital
- Address
- Bron-y-Garth Hospital, Minffordd, Penrhyndeudraeth, LL48 6HE
- OS grid reference
- SH 603 386
- Coordinates
- 52.92715, -4.07932
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bron-y-Garth Hospital is a large former workhouse complex built of rubble, with the main elevations covered in roughcast and slate roofs. The building follows a standard grid-plan layout, featuring transverse and spinal ranges connected by a central octagonal block. Most of the windows are small pane sashes.
The front range facing the road has two storeys and a basement, forming a four-bay block with an advanced centre, a hipped slate roof, and wide eaves. This section, which was formerly the main entrance, has a window inserted into what used to be the doorway. There are single-storey ranges set back on either side of the front range; the left side is largely pebbledash and original, while the right side is rubble and partly built after 1888. Both sides feature deep bracket hoods over the doorways and horned small pane sash windows throughout.
The spinal range extends from the central block to the three-storey octagon and three-storey parallel ranges, creating two courtyards that are open at the ends. The northeast courtyard has rubble ranges, and the main entrance is located in a flat-roof extension. The southwest courtyard is mostly pebbledash and includes a red brick stack. The parallel range features a second-floor cill band. The rear courtyards are slightly larger, predominantly three storeys high and built of rubble, with all windows featuring 15 and 20 pane sashes and massive lintels. There are doorways leading to the second floor. The northeast rear courtyard is closed off at the top by a single-storey range, while the southwest courtyard includes detached garages.
Inside, some windows and doors near the main entrance of the hospital have lugged architraves and panelled reveals.
Local climate
Bron-y-Garth Hospital sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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