Old Cottage in the grounds of Garth is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 September 2020. Cottage.

Old Cottage in the grounds of Garth

WRENN ID
peeling-stair-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 September 2020
Type
Cottage
Address
Old Cottage in the grounds of Garth, Pensarn, Llanfair, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 583 281
Coordinates
52.83202, -4.10467
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Old Cottage in the grounds of Garth is a single-storey, double-fronted cottage constructed from rubble field stone. It features slate-stone lintels and is topped with a renewed slate roof that has coped gables and a stone stack on the left side. The entrance has a boarded door, flanked by wood-framed small-pane windows, with an opening iron-frame light on the right. The rear of the cottage is built into a slope and includes one small blocked window and a blocked former doorway aligned with the front door.

Originally, the interior was divided into two units, possibly with a crog loft, but it is now undivided. The walls are limewashed, and some flagstones are visible on the floor. Above the fireplace, there are remains of a plastered fireplace hood, although only the wickerwork frame remains, and it is in poor condition. To the right of the fireplace is a bread oven. The collar-beam roof truss dates from the late 19th century or early 20th century and is made of machine-sawn timber. The adjacent Garth House is not of special architectural or historic interest.

Local climate

Old Cottage in the grounds of Garth sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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