Gorphwysfa is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1971. Terraced house. 5 related planning applications.
Gorphwysfa
- WRENN ID
- veiled-keep-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1971
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- Gorphwysfa, Llanengan, Pwllheli, LL53 7LG
- OS grid reference
- SH 293 269
- Coordinates
- 52.8133, -4.53289
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gorphwysfa is a house that was originally two cottages. It is constructed of pebbledashed rubble stone and features a steep, slated close-eaved roof with fairly tall end chimney stacks. The left chimney stack is broad, made of rubble stone, and has dripstones and capping, while the right stack is pebbledash from the 20th century and may have been rebuilt. The house is one and a half storeys high and has three half-dormers that are offset to the right. The dormers are pebbledashed, with the left dormer featuring a surviving 12-pane sash window, while the other two dormers have 20th-century plastic windows.
On the ground floor, there is a door to the left aligned with the left chimney, followed by a window, another door, and a window that align with the dormers. The doors are 20th-century half-glazed, and the windows have cambered heads with 12-pane small hornless sashes. The left end wall is made of rubble stone. At the rear, there is a central wing with a brick end stack and a 16-pane sash window on the first floor to the north. It is said that there are small ceiling beams in the northern end and a narrowed fireplace.
Local climate
Gorphwysfa sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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