Pen-y-Crisiau is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1995. House.

Pen-y-Crisiau

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
31 January 1995
Type
House
Address
Pen-y-Crisiau, Barmouth
OS grid reference
SH 614 157
Coordinates
52.72143, -4.05342
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pen-y-Crisiau is a building from the early 20th century with an irregular main northwest face. The ground floor features two plain wooden cross-windows and a modern six-panelled recessed door, which has a wooden stepped access leading down to a basement courtyard. To the left of the entrance is a small three-pane modern window. The basement entrance is rough-hewn, with a deeply recessed part-glazed 20th-century door. There are modern recessed windows to the left of the door and at the extreme right. The attic has three gabled dormers with early 19th-century 16-pane sash windows that break the eaves. Access to the attic floor is provided by a flight of old slate steps with rubble parapets on either side, leading to a slightly recessed modern door with glazed upper lights.

On the southeast side, which faces a narrow alley, there is a blocked entrance and two blocked windows. Above these, there is a small original window opening under the eaves, featuring a crude projecting slate-stone trough at the cill level, with a modern six-pane casement. A modern recessed glazed door leads to the street-facing gable, accompanied by a large plain-glazed window to the right.

Inside, the ground floor has a rough chamfered beamed ceiling and shows evidence of former post and panel partitioning. A 19th-century pine corkscrew stair leads to the upper level, originating from an original short half-turn stone stair that is within the thickness of the wall.

Local climate

Pen-y-Crisiau sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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