Trefan is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1971. House.
Trefan
- WRENN ID
- hollow-brick-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Trefan, Llanystumdwy, Criccieth
- OS grid reference
- SH 481 393
- Coordinates
- 52.92984, -4.26123
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Trefan is a Grade II listed house featuring a prominent main block that stands three storeys tall and has five window bays, facing east. There is a two-storey rear wing that looks out onto the gardens to the south, and a one-storey and loft northern range that extends north from the rear wing, which is likely part of an earlier house on the site. The main facade is rendered and topped with a slate roof that has deep boxed eaves and two asymmetrically placed chimney stacks.
The entrance consists of a round-headed pair of partly glazed doors situated beneath a wide open pedimented porch supported by Tuscan columns. Above the doors is a fanlight adorned with intersecting Gothic glazing bars. The house features sash windows across all three floors, with 15 panes on the ground floor, 12 panes on the first floor, and 9 panes on the second floor. There is also a canted single-storey bay window with a flat roof on the south gable end that faces the garden. The rear wing has three bays, with its two storeys rising to three as the ground slopes down to the west, and it includes a central door leading to the garden. The northern wing has been partially rebuilt following an earthquake in the 1970s.
Although not inspected at the time, previous descriptions and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales indicate that the interior includes a columned hall, a stair hall featuring an open-string staircase with a continuous handrail, and a roof lantern above. There are also some marble fireplaces present.
Local climate
Trefan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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