Gwastad Annas (Old House) is a Grade II* listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1968. A 19th Century House.
Gwastad Annas (Old House)
- WRENN ID
- lone-mortar-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Period
- 19th Century
- Address
- Gwastad Annas (Old House), Afon Glaslyn, Caernarfon, Beddgelert, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 656 536
- Coordinates
- 53.06293, -4.00608
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gwastad Annas, also known as the Old House, is a two-unit lobby entry house with a later addition aligned with the original structure. It is built of whitened rubble and features a 20th-century slate roof, although the original rubble gable parapets have been lost. The house has a squat central chimney, weathercoursing, and simple capping. Above the main openings, there are stone hoods, but the glazing has been replaced with 20th-century materials.
The entrance is off-centre to the left, featuring a stopped-chamfered frame and a recessed boarded door. There are flanking windows and an additional blocked opening immediately to the left. The later addition on the far right includes another window and a boarded entrance. At the rear, there is a 10-pane casement window from the turn of the century set in what was once a door opening, along with 6-pane flanking casements. To the left, there is another entrance with a boarded door, which is recessed between two 20th-century lean-to additions, the larger of which has a corrugated iron roof. The upper left gable has a four-pane sash window dating from the late 19th or early 20th century.
Inside, the lobby entry plan includes a parlour to the left and a former hall to the right of the chimney. The hall features a wide stopped-chamfered bressummer above the fireplace, with a similar lateral ceiling beam and a stone-flagged floor. The ceiling joists are from the 19th century, and there are boarded doors. An enclosed corkscrew stair made of pine boarding leads from the hall to the upper floor. The primary section has a two-bay collar truss roof, with a 19th-century superimposed roof structure.
Local climate
Gwastad Annas (Old House) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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