Quay Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1995. A Victorian House.

Quay Cottage

WRENN ID
hushed-barrel-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1995
Type
House
Period
Victorian
Address
Quay Cottage, Barmouth
OS grid reference
SH 615 155
Coordinates
52.72009, -4.05096
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Quay Cottage is a building constructed from rubble and topped with a slate roof featuring decorative ridge details and three small 20th-century skylights. The left gable has a cemented rubble finish, and there are squat end stacks with weather coursing; the right stack is mostly incorporated into a later adjoining building, while the left has a tall brick upper section, a late 19th-century alteration. The facade is pebbledashed with a raised cement entablature framing the central recessed entrance, which features a late Victorian door with glazed upper panels. The windows are late Victorian sashes with two panes and projecting slate cills.

Adjoining to the right at a right angle, there is a small single-storey building made of rendered rubble and slate, likely a former wash house or shop from the 19th century. This building has a recessed, part-glazed Victorian door on the street-facing gable end and a plain squat chimney above it, along with a 9-pane near-flush sash window on the west side wall.

Inside, the entrance hall boasts a Victorian geometric tiled floor. A fine three-storey early 19th-century well stair features a swept mahogany rail, with oak treads and risers leading to the first floor, then transitioning to pine. The balusters display a flat iron triple lozenge motif alternating with stick balusters, and the tread-ends are scrolled. Off the hall are early 19th-century six-panelled doors, with the room to the left featuring an internal reeded doorcase with corner rosettes. The right-hand room contains a large inglebeam, and all ground and first-floor windows have panelled shutters.

Local climate

Quay Cottage 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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