Tafarn Pencei Cafe Bar is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1951. Café bar, house. 1 related planning application.
Tafarn Pencei Cafe Bar
- WRENN ID
- endless-corner-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1951
- Type
- Café bar, house
- Address
- Tafarn Pencei Cafe Bar, 17-18 Pencei (Cornhill), Porthmadog, LL49 9AT
- OS grid reference
- SH 568 384
- Coordinates
- 52.92408, -4.13093
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Tafarn Pencei Cafe Bar is a pair of 2-window, 2½-storey houses built in a range with No 19 Cornhill, now converted into a single premises. Constructed from large slate-stone blocks laid in regular courses, the building features a slate roof, with No 18 on the right side being lower than No 17. Both units have replacement glazed doors on the right side and a 12-pane horned sash window. The upper storey includes 4-pane horned sashes arranged in two pairs. No 17, on the left, has a large added gabled roof dormer, while No 18, on the right, has two added skylights. On the left side, there is a 1-storey projection with a balcony above, located on the site of No 16. The left gable end, which was formerly a dividing wall with No 16, is rendered and painted cream, featuring a glazed door that opens to the balcony.
At the rear, there is a 2-storey gabled extension on the left side (No 18) and a flat-roof addition on the right side (No 17), which also has a raised slate-hung upper storey. The interior has been modernised.
Local climate
Tafarn Pencei Cafe Bar sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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