Rhos House is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 November 1986. House.

Rhos House

WRENN ID
turning-vestry-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 November 1986
Type
House
Address
Rhos House, Minfford, Penrhyndeudraeth
OS grid reference
SH 595 386
Coordinates
52.92727, -4.09077
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rhos House is a two-storey sub-medieval house that has evolved into an L-plan structure. It is built of rubble with slate roofs and features distinctive triangular crestings on its end chimneys. The main block has a west-facing front with two windows, each containing 12-pane sashes, flanking a central entrance that serves both floors. The upper floor windows are topped with gabled dormers, and the principal gables of this wing are slab-coped. The later rear range includes two 2-pane sashes facing the lane to the south, along with a similar window on the first floor set within a gabled dormer. The bargeboards are plain. At the rear of the primary range, there is a full-length lean-to that extends into the angle with the later block.

Inside, the house retains low beamed ceilings and a massive timber lintel in the left gable range. A timber stair rises straight from the entrance lobby.

Local climate

Rhos House 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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