Cae'r Llwyn Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1968. Cottages.
Cae'r Llwyn Cottages
- WRENN ID
- broken-steel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1968
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Cae'r Llwyn Cottages, Llandwrog, Caernarfon, LL54 5SU
- OS grid reference
- SH 451 558
- Coordinates
- 53.07776, -4.31335
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Cae'r Llwyn Cottages is a row of six single-storey cottages built in a picturesque style. They are constructed from irregularly coursed rubblestone with large quoins and reddish brown brick segmental heads and drip moulds. The left cottage, No.1, is now pebbledashed, while the others have slate roofs, with only the right cottage, No.6, retaining the original graded slates. The roofs extend over low-eaved lean-to verandahs.
The cottages are symmetrically arranged in a pattern of 1: 2: 2: 2: 2: 2: 1 bays, featuring single-bay projecting gabled end sections and 2-bay sections under the verandah, alternating with 2-bay hip-roofed projections. Most of the wooden windows are original, consisting of three lights with simple pointed Gothic tracery and hollow spandrels, except for No.1, which has plastic windows and an infilled verandah. The verandahs of the other cottages retain their original open form, although several posts have been renewed. The best-preserved verandah is at No.6, where the original rustic posts and braces remain.
There are rendered ridge stacks to the left and right of the gabled end sections, with the one at No.1 rebuilt. Paired ridge stacks between Nos.1 and 2 and Nos.3 and 4 have been demolished, but the one between Nos.5 and 6 remains. Shared ridge stacks are located between Nos.2 and 3 and Nos.4 and 5 on the hipped projections. A flat-roofed dormer has been inserted into No.3. The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Cae'r Llwyn Cottages 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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