Turnpike is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 2000. Cottage.
Turnpike
- WRENN ID
- errant-porch-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Turnpike, Penygroes, Caernarfon, Llanllyfni
- OS grid reference
- SH 475 530
- Coordinates
- 53.05267, -4.27525
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Turnpike is a building designed in a picturesque Gothic style, constructed with regularly coursed and dressed granite blocks that alternate with slightly projecting slate stones set on edge to create a banded pattern. It features a slate roof with a diaper pattern made from contrasting grey and green slates, supported by rough modillioned eaves cornice. The building has a basic T-plan with two equal-height ranges; the eastern range includes a gable-lit attic at the front and a steeply pitched gable at the center of the long wall. A single-storey porch projects to the left of the steeply pitched gable. There is an integral end stack to the north of the east range and a similar ridge stack to the right of the west range, both exhibiting the same architectural details as the rest of the cottage. The building has 20th-century joinery throughout and a blocked window in the steeply pitched gable. Access to the interior was not possible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Turnpike sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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