Erw-Wen is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Gate lodge. 1 related planning application.
Erw-Wen
- WRENN ID
- night-corbel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1990
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- Erw-Wen, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, LL40 1RT
- OS grid reference
- SH 726 176
- Coordinates
- 52.7417, -3.88813
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Erw-Wen is a two-storey asymmetric terrace building with a third attic storey added in the late 19th century. It features coursed rubble masonry, which is of an inferior technique compared to later constructions. The moderately pitched slate roof has deep verges, exposed purlins, and bargeboards, along with stone stacks and water tabling.
The building has three equidistant gablets above the second-floor windows, which are adorned with bargeboards and slate lintels. Erw-Wen itself has 12-pane sash windows, while the other two-storey Victorian rectangular bays feature later sash windows, hipped slate roofs, eaves cornices, and vertically paned sashes. The first floor has flanking 12-pane sashes, and the ground floor boasts a stone lintel and a "classical" doorcase. This doorcase is supported by half-round Tuscan pilasters on stone bases, which hold up a corniced entablature with diglyphs that bear quatrefoils. The deep reveals contain fielded panels, and the rectangular fanlight has diamond-like glazing above a six-panelled door, which has a lower reeded but flush design, while the upper panels are fielded (the upper is now glazed). Heavy slate steps lead down to the street.
To the left of Erw-Wen, there is a single two-tier bay with similar detailing. It has a 12-pane sash window on the first floor to the right of the doorway, although the doorcase has been removed. This bay also features diamond-like glazing in the rectangular fanlight above a complete six-panelled door with similar details to those found on Erw-Wen.
The property is enclosed by a low forecourt wall that is slate capped, with plain spear and hoop iron railings and gates.
Local climate
Erw-Wen 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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