White Horses is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 1971. Vernacular cottage.
White Horses
- WRENN ID
- spare-bonework-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 January 1971
- Type
- Vernacular cottage
- Address
- White Horses, Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth
- OS grid reference
- SH 589 368
- Coordinates
- 52.91079, -4.09946
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
White Horses is a single-storey vernacular cottage with 20th-century additions to the south and northwest, the latter being a storeyed link block. The main cottage is built of whitened rubble and is aligned with the quay it is part of, topped with a slate roof. It features a sturdy central chimney stack with a slated opening. The south addition is one bay deep and has an arched entrance on the right with a boarded door, along with two blind arched windows on the left that have faux small-pane glazing and fans.
The northwest addition connects the primary block to the Observation Tower through a link wall that is at right angles to it. This addition is constructed on arches over the path to the point, making the main structure effectively one raised storey. It is timber hung with horizontal boarding and also has a slate roof, along with an inset anchorage for boats.
Local climate
White Horses 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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