Dyffrydan is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1995. Demolished terrace.
Dyffrydan
- WRENN ID
- pale-panel-barley
- 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
- Demolished terrace
- Address
- Dyffrydan, Pont Dyffrydan, Arthog, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 694 149
- Coordinates
- 52.71681, -3.93421
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Dyffrydan is a square, mid-19th century cottage that stands two storeys tall with a partial basement. It is built from rubble and features an old small-slate roof, with remnants of rough-cast on the west gable. The cottage has a tall central chimney stack that includes plain banding, capping, and weather coursing.
The main (north) front is nearly symmetrical and has two windows. On the left, there is a 20-pane near-flush contemporary sash window, with a similar 10-pane horizontal window above it. On the right, there is a 16-pane window with an 8-pane window above, both having projecting stone cills. Below the ground-floor window, there is a plain boarded entrance that has slate steps leading down from the left, currently without a door.
To the left of the main block, there is a single-storey porch that is stepped down and set back, featuring weather coursing where it meets the east gable of the main building. This porch has an entrance on the left with a contemporary boarded door and a 20th-century window on its east gable face.
At the rear, there is a later addition, a rubble wash-house with a corrugated iron catslide roof. This structure has a recessed entrance with a boarded door on the east face and a squat chimney on the southeast corner. The wash-house has a slate-coped parapet on its short west wall, which projects beyond the line of the main block, as well as a projection to the north where it extends eastward beyond the porch block.
Inside, the left ground-floor room features plain boarded ceilings, a contemporary boxed-in stair, and a plain fireplace with a stone lintel.
Local climate
Dyffrydan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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