Pont-yr-Arran Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 May 1979. House.

Pont-yr-Arran Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 May 1979
Type
House
Address
Pont-yr-Arran Cottage, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 729 177
Coordinates
52.7427, -3.88416
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pont-yr-Arran Cottage is a 1.5-storey, three-window cottage constructed of rubble masonry. It features a steeply pitched quarry slate roof with close verges and eaves. The cottage has stone stacks with water tabling; the stack on the right is set lengthways to the ridge, while the smaller stack on the left is positioned differently.

There are three hipped stone dormers with close eaves. The upper sash windows on the upper floor have nine panes, while the ground floor windows, which flank a central doorway, have shallow upper sashes with sixteen panes and are topped with stone lintels. The door has six vertically proportioned panels. At the rear, there is a doorway in the center, with a window to the left, both featuring stone lintels. The roof also includes three modern skylights.

Inside, the cottage has stop-chamfered transverse ceiling beams, with end beams set against the wall on corbels. There is an early 19th-century staircase and a massive timber bressumer over the fireplace, along with through purlin collared trusses. A demolished rear wing is said to have contained an upper cruck and an early 18th-century staircase.

Local climate

Pont-yr-Arran Cottage 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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