2 Pencei (Cornhill) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1951. House.
2 Pencei (Cornhill)
- WRENN ID
- twisted-window-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2 Pencei (Cornhill), Porthmadog
- OS grid reference
- SH 568 383
- Coordinates
- 52.9231, -4.13056
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a 4-storey, 4-bay block constructed of large blocks of slate-stone laid in regular courses, with a slate roof and ridge stacks located to the left of centre and on the left-hand ridge. The front elevation features unequal, outer gabled bays at Nos 2 and 5. The left-hand bay (No 2) has replacement windows, with larger windows on the lower storey, and an entrance offset to the right, featuring a half-glazed door and side panel which replaced a larger original door. No 3 has a replacement half-glazed door and overlight on the right side, accompanied by a 2-pane sash window to its left. While the 2nd storey window has been replaced, the 3rd and 4th storeys retain earlier 2-pane sash windows. No 4 has a panel door and overlight, with a 16-pane hornless sash window to its left. The 2nd and 3rd storeys have similar windows, and the 4th storey has a shorter 12-pane sash window. No 5, beneath the right-hand gable, features a half-glazed panel door and a 2-light small-pane window to its left. The 2nd, 3rd and 4th storeys each have 18-pane sash windows where loading doors previously existed, with a pulley block above the upper-storey window.
The right-hand end wall (No 5) shows the outline of a former 1-storey gabled building and has replacement 2-light windows on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th storeys. The left-hand 2-window end (No 2) also has replacement windows, along with a lean-to structure with a blocked window facing the front. A garage with double doors, set under a steel lintel, is situated at the left-hand end. The building belongs to a group known as 2-5 Pencei (Cornhill).
Local climate
2 Pencei (Cornhill) 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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