Ivy House is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. House. 2 related planning applications.
Ivy House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-pedestal-crag
- 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
- Ivy House, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 727 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74206, -3.88588
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ivy House is a three-storey building featuring a block of three-window and two-window houses, constructed from coursed rubble masonry. The moderately pitched hipped slate roof overhangs the eaves, with quarry slates specifically on Ivy House. It has a central stone stack and lateral stacks on both the left and right rear. Water tabling is present along the eaves.
The building showcases five Victorian gablets above the second-floor windows, adorned with sinuous bargeboards and wrought iron finials. The Victorian sash windows have stone sills, with similar deeper windows on the first floor featuring stone lintels and sills. There is a blocked central doorway flanked by Victorian sash windows on the house to the left. Ivy House has a central doorway with a corniced porch supported by slender Tuscan columns and pilasters, topped with a rectangular fanlight above a part-glazed panelled door.
To the left, there is a Victorian sash window, while to the right, a canted bay features a flat corniced top, Victorian sashes, and a stone base. The left end corner is canted back to follow the street line, with a Victorian sash window on the ground floor of the left end elevation. Ivy House also has a two-storey rear wing with a quarry slate roof and a brick stack on a stone base. A former stable runs parallel to the rear, constructed from rubble masonry with a gabled quarry slate roof and close verges. It includes a loft doorway with a stone lintel and modern garage doors on the ground floor, as well as stone piers leading to a later outer gateway.
The interiors of the building have been largely modernised, featuring a contemporary staircase in the house to the left.
Local climate
Ivy House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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