Coed Fron Serth is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. House.
Coed Fron Serth
- WRENN ID
- western-quoin-torch
- 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
- Coed Fron Serth, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, LL40 2PT
- OS grid reference
- SH 751 175
- Coordinates
- 52.74076, -3.8503
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Coed Fron Serth is a two-storey building constructed of coursed rubble masonry, featuring a gently pitched quarry slate roof with plain eaves and close verges. It has stone stacks and water tabling. The eastern section of the building is an earlier double pile wing from the early to mid-19th century, which has apsidal ends to the west.
The entrance front faces north, with an end stack on the left. There are four first-floor windows with stone lintels: two small paned casements on the left and two shallow eight-pane sashes on the right, all with slate sills. The doorway is centrally located on what was the farmhouse elevation, featuring a part-glazed door with a false lattice glazed fanlight. A modern gabled timber glazed porch sits on a stone plinth. Flanking the doorway are sixteen-pane sash windows with deep stone lintels, and to the extreme right is a horizontally-proportioned twelve-pane sash window with a stone lintel.
The west end of the building has twin apsidal bays that are advanced to the left, featuring four tripartite sash windows, with a twelve-pane centre sash and eight-pane side sashes. There is a central stone stack.
At the rear, the garden elevation shows a double pile structure. There is a sixteen-pane sash window on the first floor to the right and a similar one below it. A small paned French window is located on the ground floor to the left, also with a stone lintel. The gabled rear portion of the older part of the building is on the extreme right, featuring six-pane sash windows on both the first and ground floors.
To the east gable end, there is a small gabled outhouse made of rubble masonry with a slate roof, a plank door, and a six-pane sash window on the end elevation, along with a lean-to on the left. The original house has a corbelled oven projection on its wall to the right.
Inside, the property features reeded doorcases, six-panel doors, and panelled window shutters and reveals. The earlier staircase, possibly reused, has square newels and sinuous splat balusters, along with 17th-century panelling.
Local climate
Coed Fron Serth 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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