Winding house is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 2000. Industrial.

Winding house

WRENN ID
stubborn-roof-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 July 2000
Type
Industrial
Address
Winding house, Pen-Yr-Orsedd, Caernarfon, Llanllyfni
OS grid reference
SH 510 540
Coordinates
53.06254, -4.2246
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This building is a winding house constructed with regularly coursed slate slabs and irregularly coursed rubblestone. It features a slate roof with an integral end stack on the south-east gable. There is a ramped entrance leading to a doorway located on the far right of the north-east wall. The north-west gable end has a multi-paned horizontal window, while the south-east gable end contains a 2-light window. Inside, the electric motor and uphaulage drum remain intact.

Local climate

Winding house sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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