Garth is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 April 1998. House.
Garth
- WRENN ID
- muted-moat-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- Garth, Abersoch, Pwllheli, Llanengan
- OS grid reference
- SH 314 280
- Coordinates
- 52.8235, -4.50351
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Garth is a house built with unpainted roughcast and extensive red brick dressings. It features hipped roofs with a central valley covered in red plain tiles, and has moulded painted timber eaves cornices. There are three large red brick chimney stacks with raised side panels and moulded cast-stone caps, positioned behind the ridges; one is parallel to the front west entrance, while two are symmetrically placed at right angles to the east garden front.
The house has one storey and an attic, with a five-window front and three-window sides. The windows are long 18-pane sashes set in rusticated red brick surrounds that extend to the eaves, with blank brick panels above and stone keystones. The east front features a broad central projection with a hipped roof and a flat ridge, topped with a tiny flat dormer above a three-bay open-pedimented front. The bays are marked by plain red brick piers with roughcast in between, and there is a tall flat-headed brick doorway between the central piers, featuring a stone triple key and double doors. There are also tiny dormers on either side of the projecting roof. Each side of the main range has one large hipped dormer with leaded casement windows and tiled cheeks, positioned on the eaves between the ground floor windows. The sides have three similar ground floor openings with panels above and three similar dormers above, although the original leaded glazing has been removed. On the north side, there are doors instead of windows in the outer bays.
The garden front has a straight facade but features slightly projecting hipped roofs over the two outer windows, each with a similar dormer. The center has a three-bay loggia supported by two stone columns with flat lintels, and there are two small flat dormers above. The loggia may have originally been open but is now infilled with glazing, containing two similar windows and a central door.
Local climate
Garth sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,660 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles 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 0.3°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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