Bryn House is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. Commercial premises.

Bryn House

WRENN ID
fallow-screen-shade
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
Commercial premises
Address
Bryn House, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 726 176
Coordinates
52.74172, -3.88783
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bryn House is a three-storey building with a cellar, featuring three windows on each floor. It is constructed from coursed rubble masonry and has a later hipped slate roof with oversailing eaves supported by a cavetto stone cornice. There are paired stone stacks along the ridge, topped with moulded caps.

The second-floor windows have shallow upper sashes with nine panes, set beneath the eaves. The first-floor windows are twelve-pane sashes with stone lintels and slate sills. The ground floor windows are similar but have stone slab reveals. A central porch features a pediment supported by slender Tuscan columns and pilasters, with a rectangular fanlight above that has latticed glazing, and a later part-glazed panelled door.

On the right end elevation, there is a Victorian vertically paned sash window, with a doorway next to it leading to the kitchen at the rear of the house. The rear elevation has small paned sashes, and the central stair window has been truncated to form a cross window with a modern doorway cut below.

At the rear, there is a large walled garden and a long, narrow gabled outhouse to the left. The slate roof of the house extends to create a porch on a metal bracket over the kitchen doorway at the southwest corner.

Inside, there is a broad depressed arch in the hall with twin-reeded pilasters. The moulded architraves have deep panelled reveals and soffits, with six-paned doors. The first flight of the staircase, which is contemporary and dog-legged, is partitioned off. The window splay is panelled with concealed shutters, and the main rooms feature a moulded cornice while the hallway has a reeded cornice. Currently, the ground floor is set up as a separate flat.

Local climate

Bryn House 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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