Y Bont is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1995. Terraced cottages.

Y Bont

WRENN ID
brooding-vault-blackthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 February 1995
Type
Terraced cottages
Address
Y Bont, 2 A493, Arthog, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 645 146
Coordinates
52.71255, -4.00581
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Y Bont is a two-storey terrace of three cottages built in two periods. The right section dates from around 1800 and originally extended to the right; it was raised and extended to the left and truncated to the right in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of whitened rubble and features a continuous medium-pitched slate roof with plain bargeboards on the southwest and northeast gables. There are end and two additional squat chimneys, all of which are rendered except for the one on the right. The arrangement of doors and windows is irregular: the central cottage has an entrance with a single window to the right, while the flanking cottages have central entrances and flanking windows. The doors are slightly recessed and are 19th-century boarded doors, accompanied by contemporary four-pane sash windows. There are six narrower windows on the first floor, with two per cottage. Adjoining the earlier No 3 on the right is a reduced single-storey unit that was originally full-height and now has a lean-to corrugated iron roof. This unit features a recessed four-panel door with a small canted bay to the right, which has plain glazing and an iron roof. There is a 20th-century catslide extension to the right and a rear lean-to extension to No 1.

Local climate

Y Bont sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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