Yr Aelwyd is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 1983. Church.
Yr Aelwyd
- WRENN ID
- hidden-threshold-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Yr Aelwyd, 3-5 Church Street, Walled Town, Caernarfon
- OS grid reference
- SH 477 628
- Coordinates
- 53.14093, -4.27782
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Yr Aelwyd is a large building in the Georgian style, featuring roughcast walls and a graded slate roof with stacks at both ends and one to the left of center. The structure has three storeys and an attic, with a large asymmetrical front that combines the original single-window property at No 3 and the two-window property at No 5 into one. The entrance is located at the left end, accessed by steps leading up to the raised lower storey. It features a panelled door with a plain overlight above.
The windows on the facade have architraves and sill bands, with the lower storey displaying uneven fenestration. The left and central windows align with the upper storeys and are 16-pane hornless sash windows. In the right-hand bay, there are two non-aligned windows: a mid-20th century 12-pane horned sash window on the left, which replaced the original doorway to No 5, and an 8-pane hornless sash window on the right. Further to the right is a passage at basement level. The middle storey has 16-pane hornless sash windows, while the upper storey features 12-pane hornless sashes. The attic includes blocked windows beneath the eaves, which have been replaced on the right and left with dormers containing casement windows, and in the center by a horned sash window in a half-dormer.
The rear of the building is also roughcast and retains a 19th-century domestic character, featuring mainly small-pane hornless sash windows, including stair lights to the left of center, and three raked dormers with 4-pane sashes.
Local climate
Yr Aelwyd 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
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