Tan-y-braich is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 January 1999. Cottage.

Tan-y-braich

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 January 1999
Type
Cottage
Address
Tan-y-braich, Caernarfon, Betws Garmon
OS grid reference
SH 518 579
Coordinates
53.09824, -4.21409
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Tan-y-braich is a smallholder's cottage with an attached cowhouse, built from roughly coursed limewashed rubblestone and topped with a graded slate roof. The roof features a ridge stack to the left of the center and an integral end stack to the left, both equipped with slate drips. This single-storey building has a long domestic range that may have been constructed in two phases. The right section is a conventional dwelling with a central doorway flanked by two windows. The left section, which may have served as an out-kitchen, has a doorway on the right and a single window on the left; it might have been used separately. All windows have slate cills, and at the time of the survey, the windows and doors were boarded up. The attached cowhouse on the right features a plank door. Additionally, there is a later outbuilding set back from the left gable end, which has a shallow lean-to tin roof. The property was not available for inspection at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Tan-y-braich 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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