Bryn Dinas is a Grade II* listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 July 1994. House. 1 related planning application.

Bryn Dinas

WRENN ID
ruined-step-briar
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 July 1994
Type
House
Address
Bryn Dinas, Cwm Maethlon (Happy Valley), Tywyn, Gwynedd, LL36 9HY
OS grid reference
SN 635 985
Coordinates
52.56791, -4.0153
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bryn Dinas is a 1½-storey, three-window house built of rubble stone, with cement rendering on the front and left gable end. It features a graded-slate roof with a coped gable on the right side, a central stone square chimney stack, and a rendered square stack on the left. Most of the openings date from the late 19th century. To the left of center, there is a recessed panel door beneath a simple slate hood, flanked by four-pane horned sash windows and a small casement window further to the right. Three gabled dormers, each with four-pane horned sash windows, are present. The right gable end has a loft door, while the left gable end has four-pane sash windows, smaller ones in the attic, offset towards the rear.

At the rear, the house has a three-window layout with a one-storey wing on the right that includes a sash window and a half-glazed door. The hall and inner room each have an inserted two-light small-pane casement window, and there is a small stair window to the right of center.

The house has a three-unit plan. The entrance features a residual cross passage with a rear doorway that now opens to the rear wing, opposite the front doorway. The left room retains a cross beam with run-out stops. The hall on the right has a joist-beam ceiling, with the spine beam featuring fillet stops. The large fireplace has a timber lintel, and to its right is a stone stair. Two former inner rooms are separated by a 19th-century post-and-panel screen, with the dairy on the left retaining slate slabs. Two half cruck trusses are visible, with the central arched-brace truss being finely moulded and featuring a moulded boss, indicating it was once the open truss of a two-bay hall (any ornamentation above the arched brace is concealed by plaster). The second truss, located in the inner rooms, is plainer and has a collar beam. The lower storey has a flagstone floor.

Local climate

Bryn Dinas 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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