Pen-y-bont Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1990. Row of cottages. 2 related planning applications.
Pen-y-bont Cottages
- WRENN ID
- white-column-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1990
- Type
- Row of cottages
- Address
- Pen-y-bont Cottages, 6 A493, Pantperthog, Machynlleth, Corris, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 744 019
- Coordinates
- 52.60088, -3.85574
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nos 1-6 Pen-y-bont Cottages form a row of six two-storey cottages located within the Corris Community. The cottages, built of stone and rendered with pebbledash, display varying forms and widths and are slightly angled in the centre. The eastern pair, Nos 5 and 6, are stepped up to accommodate a rise in the ground. Painted margins highlight many window and door openings, with a painted plinth along the base. Most windows are casement or sash, and doors are generally boarded. The cottages have slate roofs with red tile ridges and stone and blue-brick stacks. Low forecourt walls are present.
No 6 is a pair with No 5 at the eastern end of the row and is set slightly higher, potentially indicating it is somewhat earlier in date. No 6 occupies two bays, with the entrance on the left sharing a wide opening with No 5. A boarded door is within a stop-chamfered frame. The ground floor has a two-light paned timber window, and a similar but shorter window is located on the first floor, above the entrance. A similar window is also present in the gable end. The gable end features a blue-brick stack and smooth-rendered bands painted black to simulate timber framing.
Local climate
Pen-y-bont Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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