No.1 Tai'r Eglwys (Church Cottages) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1968. Cottage.
No.1 Tai'r Eglwys (Church Cottages)
- WRENN ID
- sunken-copper-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1968
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- No.1 Tai'r Eglwys (Church Cottages), Llandwrog, Caernarfon
- OS grid reference
- SH 450 560
- Coordinates
- 53.07943, -4.31432
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
No. 1 Tai'r Eglwys, also known as Church Cottages, is a pair of cottages built in a picturesque Gothic style. The building features a central single-storey section flanked by two equal-height gabled projections, each with windows on the upper floors. The exterior is made of irregularly coursed rubblestone, with large quoins, and the gabled part of No. 2 is rendered. The window dressings and dripmoulds are made of reddish brown brick, set above slate lintels. The roof is covered with slate and has projecting verges, with carved purlin ends visible at the gables.
The cottages have a layout of 1:2:1 bays, with windows that were originally 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed casements. However, the windows in No. 2 have been replaced with plastic versions. Each gable has an entrance on the inner return, while the outer returns do not have any openings. A tall ridge stack is located at the center, featuring toothed paired and rebated shafts with moulded capping and chimney pots. There is a similar ridge stack to the right at the junction with the gabled projection of No. 2, and it is likely that there was originally an identical stack in the same position on No. 1.
There is a rooflight on the outer roof slope of the projecting gable of No. 1, and another in the rear roof slope of the main range of No. 2. A 20th-century lean-to addition has been attached to the rear of the gabled range of No. 1, which includes a large 20th-century window on the first floor. Additionally, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed addition at the rear of the central range, featuring a triangular window above the roof slope of No. 2, which continues across the rear gable of No. 2. The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Local climate
No.1 Tai'r Eglwys (Church Cottages) 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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