Dol-wenith is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 2000. House.
Dol-wenith
- WRENN ID
- stark-barrel-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 2000
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dol-wenith, Llanllyfni, Caernarfon
- OS grid reference
- SH 474 516
- Coordinates
- 53.04015, -4.277
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Dol-wenith is a house that includes a former service or agricultural range, built in a roughly coursed and dressed limewashed slate rubble, featuring some very large blocks. The building has a slate roof with stacks on the gable ends of the original dwelling. The main part of the house has a two-room layout with a central entrance that includes a 20th-century plank doorway, flanked by four-pane sash windows. The first-floor windows, originally positioned just below the eaves, are nine-pane sashes.
To the right of the main house, slightly set back but under the same roof line, is a formerly ancillary range, which may have originally served as a lofted stable. This range features a four-pane sash window on the front and a window in a former doorway on the gable end, which was originally accessed by an external staircase that is now lost. At the rear, there is a very small but full-height outshut on the right with a single doorway, possibly inserted, and a single four-pane sash window on each floor. There is also a large modern extension against the former ancillary range.
The original dwelling retains its two-room plan, although some modifications have been made. The main room includes a large fireplace with a timber bressumer and plain softwood beams and joists. A plank partition that separates this room from the smaller parlour has been re-sited to enlarge the smaller room, which now contains an inserted late 19th-century grate. A modern staircase has been added at the rear of the parlour, replacing an earlier stair that ran parallel to the partition. There is a small corner fireplace in the ancillary range, which now serves as the kitchen. The original roof trusses were replaced with steel in 2000.
Local climate
Dol-wenith sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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