Tan-y-fron is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 July 1998. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Tan-y-fron
- WRENN ID
- dark-marble-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1998
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tan-y-fron, Boduan, Pwllheli, Buan, LL53 8YF
- OS grid reference
- SH 308 386
- Coordinates
- 52.91838, -4.51671
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Tan-y-fron is a two-storey cottage located at the western end of a row of three. It features rubble granite walls, large stone lintels, and a small slate roof. The cottage has a left end chimney topped with two yellow clay pots with crests. The front has two windows, which are 12-pane hornless sashes, and a ledged door that includes bead mouldings and a 6-pane overlight. There is a 20th-century lean-to addition at the rear.
Local climate
Tan-y-fron sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,660 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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 — 2 transactions since 2013
- 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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