The Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 March 1999. Vicarage.
The Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- old-chimney-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1999
- Type
- Vicarage
- Address
- The Vicarage, Tywyn
- OS grid reference
- SH 588 008
- Coordinates
- 52.58673, -4.08488
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Vicarage is a late-Georgian style house that has two storeys, an attic, and a basement, featuring three bays. The front of the building is made of distinctive coursed blocks of unworked rubble stone, with stone lintels above the openings. The sides and rear are pebble-dashed. The slate roof includes roughcast gable stacks, and the central entrance is accessed via stone steps. It features a Tuscan doorcase, a fielded-panel door, and an overlight with thin diamond-pattern glazing bars. The outer bays have late 19th-century canted bay windows with four-pane horned sashes, and there are basement vents beneath them. The upper storey has 12-pane hornless sash windows, and three gabled roof dormers contain 8-pane hornless sash windows.
On the left gable end, there is a two-light basement window on the right side. The right gable end has two 12-pane hornless sash windows on the lower storey, with one horned window on the left and a hornless window on the right, as well as a similar hornless sash window in the upper left. The rear elevation features an added single-storey double-gabled projection made of rubble stone with yellow-brick dressings, a slate roof, and a late 20th-century blue-brick stack. The rear windows have been replaced but are in their original openings, including a tall central stair window beneath a gable and two roof dormers with 8-pane sash windows. There is also a two-light basement window on the lower right.
The house has a double-depth plan with a central stair hall. The open-well stair features turned newels and plain balusters. The dining room to the left at the rear of the hall includes a large fireplace with a stone cambered head. The basement has a flagged floor and retains original features such as slate benches and a bread oven. The three-bay roof has collar-beam trusses, which are mostly concealed by plaster.
Local climate
The Vicarage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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