Ddol is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 1999. Cottage.
Ddol
- WRENN ID
- low-rubble-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1999
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ddol, Bethel, Caernarfon, Llanddeiniolen
- OS grid reference
- SH 519 649
- Coordinates
- 53.16086, -4.21538
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ddol is a cottage with attached outbuildings, built in a long single-storey rectangular plan that runs roughly east-west. The cottage, which has two rooms, is located in the center of the main range, with equal-height outbuildings attached to each end. The left outbuilding was formerly a cowhouse, while the right may have once been a smithy. Further to the right is another former cowhouse, which is lower and follows a slight curve. The exterior is made of limewashed irregularly coursed rubblestone, and the cottage features a grouted graded slate roof with larger slates on the outbuildings.
The cottage has a 4-paned sash window with a slate cill on either side of an offset boarded door. There are integral end stacks with slate drips where they meet the outbuildings. The left outbuilding has a roughly central boarded door with a small 4-paned sash window to the right. The right outbuilding includes a large 20th-century window on the left, boarded double doors to the right, and three small 19th-century rooflights near the ridge. The lower former cowhouse on the right has boarded doors on both the left and right, with a window immediately to the right of the latter and another window in the center.
Inside, the cottage has a large room on the left with a short low screen immediately to the left of the entrance. This room features a large chimney breast with a cast-iron fire surround, a mantleshelf, and a 20th-century grate. The boarded ceiling reveals the base of an A-frame truss in the center. There is a croglofft over the small room on the right, which also has a boarded ceiling and a small infilled fireplace. The hearth in the probable former smithy shares a stack with the right room of the cottage. The cowhouse on the right has a three-bay roof supported by two A-frame trusses.
Local climate
Ddol sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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