Tryfan Mawr is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1968. House. 1 related planning application.
Tryfan Mawr
- WRENN ID
- under-vault-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tryfan Mawr, Rhostryfan, Caernarfon, Llandwrog, LL54 7NG
- OS grid reference
- SH 488 567
- Coordinates
- 53.08632, -4.25797
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Tryfan Mawr is a building that includes a 17th-century section and an early 19th-century house, featuring roughly coursed rubblestone on the older part and rendered rubblestone on the newer section, both topped with slate roofs. The earlier two-storey, two-unit house has a two-light mullion window, but few other original features are visible from the outside. It has a slate-capped integral end stack on the west gable end, with a 16-paned window to the left on the first floor. The early 19th-century house has a symmetrical west elevation with three bays, featuring 16-paned sash windows throughout. The ground floor windows are set beneath a slate-slab roofed verandah supported by four cast-iron columns with moulded plinths and capitals, and there are glazed panels above the windows. The central entrance has a boarded door, which replaced a flush six-panel door, set in a simple Doric surround. The house also includes integral end stacks and three rooflights on the front slope.
Inside, a central hallway curves towards the entrance and features a geometrical staircase with stick balusters and a moulded handrail. The principal rooms have panelled window jambs and plain plaster cornices. There is altered fenestration at the rear, and a single-storey addition on the north gable end includes a 20th-century sash window on the front.
Local climate
Tryfan Mawr 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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