Vestry Cottage & Former Vestry is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 September 1999. Cottage.

Vestry Cottage & Former Vestry

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 September 1999
Type
Cottage
Address
Vestry Cottage & Former Vestry, Llandwrog, Caernarfon
OS grid reference
SH 451 561
Coordinates
53.07967, -4.31336
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Vestry Cottage and the former vestry are designed in a simple Picturesque Gothic style, which was popular with the Glynllifon Estate during this period. The building has an L-shaped layout with one storey and an attic. It features irregularly coursed rubblestone, large quoins, and brownish red brick dressings, along with coped verges and an ashlar window surround on the gabled range facing the churchyard.

The main range, which faces the road, includes a steep gabled porch on the left that extends over a ribbed plank door with a glazed panel. To the right of the porch is a mullioned and transomed window, with a rooflight directly above it. A prominent brick ridge stack is located to the right, featuring toothed paired and rebated shafts with a moulded capping, along with an additional stack behind the ridge.

On the left gable end, there is a three-light timber mullioned and transomed window with leaded latticed glazing on the first floor, and a smaller window offset to the left on the ground floor. A similar, slightly larger window is found in the lean-to addition at the back. The projecting gabled range in the churchyard has a window at the front and a narrow ventilation slit at the apex, topped with a decorated stone cross. The left return features a ribbed plank door under a segmental-pointed arch leading to the road, with a rooflight directly above.

The interior was not inspected during the survey.

Local climate

Vestry Cottage & Former Vestry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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