Y Cymro and house is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 September 2005. Shop, house. 3 related planning applications.
Y Cymro and house
- WRENN ID
- sheer-fireplace-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 September 2005
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- Y Cymro and house, 8 Stryd Y Banc (Bank Place), Porthmadog, LL49 9AA
- OS grid reference
- SH 568 386
- Coordinates
- 52.92605, -4.13119
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Y Cymro and house is a three-storey, three-window shop and house built in roughcast painted cream, topped with a slate roof featuring projecting eaves and stone end stacks. The entrance to the house, located on the right, has a recessed fielded-panel door with a round-headed overlight above it. The shop front is flanked by plain pilasters and features a two-tier rascia and a moulded cornice. It includes windows with two round-headed lights that have slender glazing bars, along with a recessed central half-glazed fielded-panel door. The overlight above this door has been replaced by a painted sign. The upper storeys are notably designed, featuring continuous sill bands beneath the windows. The middle storey has 8-pane sash windows, with the central two paired, all connected by a continuous string course that forms their segmentally arched heads. The upper storey is fitted with 4-pane sash windows. The building has not been inspected.
Local climate
Y Cymro and house sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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