Penrala Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 May 2000. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Penrala Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-hearth-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Penrala Cottage, Tregarth, Bangor, Llandygai, LL57 4AU
- OS grid reference
- SH 601 679
- Coordinates
- 53.19025, -4.09392
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
These are a pair of single-storey cottages, built in the 18th century in a mild Picturesque style, forming a basic T-plan layout. They are constructed of roughly coursed rubblestone with quoins, and have reddish-brown brick window dressings. The roofs are slate, with a hipped form and a pedimented gable projecting to the centre. Each cottage has two 2-light windows with 16 panes, set within slate cills, to the main range, and doorways to the returns of the central gable. The central gable has a string course at eaves level and two small square windows below, one serving each cottage. The windows in the left-hand cottage (Hafan Deg) are side-hung casements, possibly originally made up from horizontal sliding sashes, while the windows in the right-hand cottage (Penrala Cottage) are 20th century plastic replacements. A small gabled porch covers the entrance to Penrala Cottage. The cottages share rendered axial ridge stacks, one to each, and include a lean-to addition to the rear. The interior was not inspected. The cottages form part of a group of two buildings.
Local climate
Penrala Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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