Wash House opposite Caeherfyn is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 May 2000. Wash house.
Wash House opposite Caeherfyn
- WRENN ID
- carved-chalk-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2000
- Type
- Wash house
- Address
- Wash House opposite Caeherfyn, Tregarth, Llandygai
- OS grid reference
- SH 603 686
- Coordinates
- 53.19648, -4.09175
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a single-storey wash house built from roughly coursed rubblestone. It features a slate roof, which has slate slabs at the edges and additional long thin slabs arranged both vertically and horizontally on the roof slope to secure the slates. There are boarded doors on the left and right sides, with slate thresholds that face directly onto the road. An integral end stack is located on the right side of the building.
Local climate
Wash House opposite Caeherfyn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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