Tan-y-dderwen is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 March 2000. Cottage.

Tan-y-dderwen

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
7 March 2000
Type
Cottage
Address
Tan-y-dderwen, Abergwyngregyn, Llanfairfechan, Aber, Gwynedd, LL33 0LN
OS grid reference
SH 656 726
Coordinates
53.23397, -4.01493
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Tan-y-dderwen consists of a pair of deliberately asymmetrical cottages located in Abergwyngregyn. Built in the mild Gothic style favored by the estate, they feature snecked rubblestone and a slate roof with bargeboards on slightly overhanging verges. The long main range runs roughly parallel to the road and has a projecting gable offset to the right. Each floor of this gable has a 2-light, 8-paned window with slate cills, stone lintels, and voussoirs supporting segmental relieving arches.

On the right side, there is a lean-to infill porch that has a 20th-century glazed outer door, which serves as the entrance to No. 2. The entrance to No. 1 is located on the far left, accessed through a 20th-century half-glazed door beneath a slate-roofed lean-to. This lean-to is bracketed around the doorway and extends to the junction with the gable, which includes a multi-paned canted bay window on the right. Above the bay window, there is a raking dormer featuring a 2-light, 12-paned casement that breaks the eaves.

The cottages have brick ridge stacks with rebated diagonal shafts, positioned to the left and right of the gable, with the right stack rendered and a similar stack located behind the ridge on the left. There are also single-storey 20th-century additions to each cottage. The interior was not inspected during the survey.

Local climate

Tan-y-dderwen sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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