Ty Ucha'r Ffordd is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1968. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Ty Ucha'r Ffordd
- WRENN ID
- rough-bronze-poplar
- 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
- Villa
- Address
- Ty Ucha'r Ffordd, Pentre-Castell, Caernarfon, Llanberis, Gwynedd, LL55 4UD
- OS grid reference
- SH 586 595
- Coordinates
- 53.11467, -4.11276
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a smallholder’s or quarryworker’s cottage, dating to the late 20th century. It has a simple three-room layout. The exterior is painted rubble stone, which was originally limewashed, and it has a slate roof. The windows are late 20th century and are top-hung, with one positioned to the right of a prominent, gabled porch featuring a glazed inner door, and another to the left. There are integral end stacks, as well as a ridge stack located slightly to the left of centre. The cottage was altered in the late 20th century.
Local climate
Ty Ucha'r Ffordd sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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