Battery is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Terraced house.
Battery
- WRENN ID
- late-doorway-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1971
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- Battery, Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
- OS grid reference
- SH 590 371
- Coordinates
- 52.91324, -4.09824
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a three-storey house built in a weather-boarded vernacular style, featuring a rendered ground floor. The pitched slate roof extends down to the left and right over lean-to blocks, creating a near-flush facade, and there is a rendered chimney. The house has asymmetrical elevations, with the front facing Battery Square. On the left side, there is a slightly-recessed lean-to section that includes a parapeted L-shaped stair leading to the first floor, all covered by a wide arch.
To the right, the main block has an off-centre narrow arched entrance with a recessed boarded door, and a small four-pane window beyond it. To the left of the entrance, there is a twelve-pane sash window with external shutters, and a lunette window to its left. On the first floor, there is another twelve-pane shuttered sash window to the left, with small square four-pane windows to the right. The second floor features a similar small window with taller six-pane flanking windows.
The weather-boarded rear elevation has nine-pane sash windows, with the ground floor featuring tripartite windows that include narrow four-pane outer sections. There is a partly-recessed terrace on the first floor to the left, with plain railings. To the left, a lower storeyed projection has irregular roof pitches and a canted bay on the ground floor, which contains the Chart Room. This section also features twelve-pane sashes, with lunette windows on the ground floor to the left, similar to those at the front.
Local climate
Battery 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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