Glanyrafon is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. Estate cottage.
Glanyrafon
- WRENN ID
- eastward-entrance-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2001
- Type
- Estate cottage
- Address
- Glanyrafon, Dolhendre, Bala, Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 851 308
- Coordinates
- 52.86268, -3.70791
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Glanyrafon is a two-storey estate cottage built in the Georgian tradition, featuring a centralised plan. It is constructed from local slatestone and has a hipped slate roof with a squat central chimney, plain capping, and weathercoursing. The cottage has a main three-bay block with a continuous dairy outshut at the rear and a long lean-to stable and cartshed addition on the left (south) side.
The main elevation is symmetrical, with a central entrance that includes a hipped-roofed, slated stone porch open to the front. The entrance has a modern boarded inner door with an upper light. Original unhorned 16-pane sash windows are present on both floors to the left and right, along with a blind window above the entrance. These windows feature rough-dressed slate lintels and projecting slate sills. The rear elevation has an entrance to the left with a boarded door, and three late 20th-century wooden-framed windows to the right (two 2-pane and one 4-pane), as well as small fixed 4-pane windows on each side.
The lean-to addition is made of rubble with a slated roof and includes boarded wooden garage doors on the south side and a boarded door at the rear, along with a recessed loading bay diagonally above this to the left. Adjacent to the cottage on the north side is a single-storey three-bay kennel block, also constructed of rubble and slate, with a yellow stock brick front facing a rear yard. This kennel block features three boarded doors, each with meshed vents above.
Inside, the cottage has a plain interior, with the main living room located to the right of the entrance and a small parlour to the left, both featuring plastered ceilings.
Local climate
Glanyrafon sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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