Plas Coch is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. A C18 House.
Plas Coch
- WRENN ID
- sacred-facade-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Plas Coch, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, LL40 1ES
- OS grid reference
- SH 728 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74222, -3.88469
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Plas Coch is a three-window house that was raised from two to three storeys in the 19th century. It features rubble masonry and has a gently pitched slate roof at the front, with a steeper original pitch at the rear. A 19th-century stone stack is located at the right end, and there is slate water tabling.
The second floor has six-pane sash windows set under the eaves, while the first floor has similar windows with stone lintels. On the ground floor, there is a six-pane sash window to the right and a central doorway with a stone lintel above a 19th-century four-panel door, which has tall glazed upper panels. To the left, there is a six-pane shop window from the late 19th century, when the premises were used as a butcher's shop, featuring a deep stone lintel. A late 19th-century forecourt wall with contemporary railings and a gate is also present. A small window with a stone lintel is located on the right end elevation.
At the rear of the house, there is a small stable forming a cross range, constructed of rubble masonry with a gabled quarry slate roof.
Inside, the hallway features an early 18th-century multiple cornice that projects over the division between the cellar and the stair. There are contemporary panelled partitions in the staircase hall that rise through the building, with large rectangular panels. The early 18th-century stair has sturdy turned balusters and newels, with a pronounced toad's back moulded handrail that sweeps up at the half landings and wave moulded tread ends. There is one original door on the ground floor to the left and two on the first-floor landing, both with two large fielded panels and plain architraves. Panelled partitions create a small closet at the first-floor landing and form one wall of the first-floor rooms. Transverse ceiling beams are also present, along with 19th-century panelled doors on the top landing.
Local climate
Plas Coch sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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