Plas Hwfa is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 March 1966. House.

Plas Hwfa

WRENN ID
idle-pillar-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 March 1966
Type
House
Address
Plas Hwfa, Tan-Y-Lon, Bangor, Llanllechid
OS grid reference
SH 615 706
Coordinates
53.2149, -4.0745
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Plas Hwfa is a 2-storey building with an attic, oriented roughly from north-east to south-west. It features a single-storey and attic range at right angles to the rear, creating a basic L-plan. The exterior is made of irregularly coursed rubblestone with a partial boulder plinth and quoins, and it is limewashed on the front. The roofs are slate, with a graded appearance on the front of the main range.

The front facade includes two small horizontal sliding sash windows, each with four panes, located near the eaves. Below these are a small two-light casement window with horizontal glazing bars and a two-light twelve-paned casement window, positioned to the left and right of an offset half-glazed door. All windows have slate cills, and there are integral end stacks with slate drips. An attic window is located on the left gable end.

On the rear wall, there is a raking eaves dormer roughly at the center, with a casement window on the ground floor and another directly above it to the left. The rear range has a substantial integral end stack with slate drips. The north-east wall features an infilled doorway at the center, which has an inserted window in the infill, and a present doorway to the right. The south-west wall includes a small four-paned window to the left, a two-light twelve-paned casement window at the center, and a flat-roofed dormer on the left.

The interior was not accessible during the survey but is reported to have a large timber lintel above a wide fireplace, with a stone winder staircase located to the side in the larger ground-floor room. This room also has an exposed beam and heavy joists.

Local climate

Plas Hwfa sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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