Ail Orau is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 December 1961. Cottage.
Ail Orau
- WRENN ID
- night-bronze-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ail Orau, 2 Gwynant Street, Beddgelert, Caernarfon, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 591 481
- Coordinates
- 53.01225, -4.10097
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ail Orau, located on Gwynant Street, consists of nine consecutive cottages built from roughly-squared stone blocks. They feature a continuous slate roof with a tiled ridge and plain, shared chimneys. There are visible masonry breaks between cottages 2 and 3, and between cottages 8 and 9, indicating different building phases. Cottage 9 is a two-window unit with a central entrance, while the other cottages are single-window units arranged in reflected pairs, each with alternating paired inner doors and windows. All the doors are from the 20th century, mostly modern.
On the ground floor, cottage 6 (Hebog) has a 12-pane sash window, while cottages 2, 4, 7, and 9 have later 19th-century plain sash windows. All cottages except for 1 and 2 feature returned slate labels and slate lintels above their ground floor windows. For the upper windows, cottages 2, 7, and 9 retain their original 19th-century 9-pane sashes under the eaves, and cottage 6 has a 12-pane sash; the remaining upper windows are modern. This group of nine cottages is of architectural significance.
Local climate
Ail Orau sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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