Howel-Sele Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 May 1995. House, outbuilding.

Howel-Sele Lodge

WRENN ID
quiet-minaret-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 May 1995
Type
House, outbuilding
Address
Howel-Sele Lodge, Nannau, Brithdir and Llanfachreth, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 744 201
Coordinates
52.76476, -3.86194
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Howel-Sele Lodge is a small, two-storey lodge with an irregular plan, built from coursed rubble and topped with a slate roof. The main front features a large shallow canted bay that includes a central window with three lights, made of wood with mullions and transoms, flanked by narrow transomed lights, all with pointed-arched heads. To the right, there is an entrance that is stepped up, featuring a pointed-arched doorcase and a boarded door, with a returned label above it. Above the entrance, there is a recess that once held a cartouche or plaque. To the left of the bay, a tall octagonal corner turret has blind arched slits and an open light at the top, which is now ruined, and a battered base. The lodge has two stringcourses, one above the other, that run along the main face above the bay, where the parapet has a 'ruined finish'. There are also two-light windows similar to the central window, with returned labels on the sides. A further lower turret is located at the northeast corner, connected to the main block by a short stretch of rubble walling. The rear features a central gable and two half-gables behind the parapet, creating a two-valley roof, with a plain end chimney at the gable. There is a single-storey lean-to projection along the length of the rear, with a further central gable that projects out, featuring windows similar to those at the front, along with modern windows and entrances on the sides.

Attached to the southwest of the lodge is a contemporary arch in Tudor style, linked by a short section of curved rubble walling. This arch is constructed of rubble and features a central Tudor arch with a label and flanking turrets, although these turrets lack decorative slits. The stringcourses are consistent with those on the lodge. There is an adjoining section of rubble wall to the southwest that returns to join the perimeter wall of a field. The tops of the arch, turrets, and wall are left in a ruinous state. Additionally, there are probably contemporary cast iron gatepiers with shaped finials and a wide gate, featuring intersecting, hooped decoration.

Local climate

Howel-Sele Lodge 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 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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