Plas Colwyn is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 April 1952. Villa.
Plas Colwyn
- WRENN ID
- carved-copper-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1952
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Plas Colwyn, Beddgelert, Caernarfon, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 589 481
- Coordinates
- 53.01214, -4.10313
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Plas Colwyn is a two-storey, three-bay Regency villa, featuring storeyed lean-to pavilion wings that are recessed to the sides. The building is constructed from coursed, rough-dressed stone blocks, which were originally stuccoed, and it has a shallow-pitched, hipped roof covered with graded slates. The eaves are deep and bracketed, and there are plain end chimneys with weather coursing.
The facade is symmetrical, with a central entrance leading to the raised ground floor via eight slate steps. The entrance features a modern six-panel door, with the upper four panels being glazed, and it is topped by a rectangular fanlight with decorative intersecting glazing bars. The original 12-pane unhorned sash windows are still present on both floors, each with projecting slate sills; the first-floor windows are slightly smaller and set under the eaves. Narrow, horizontal basement lights flank the entrance, although these have modern glazing.
The pavilion wings on either side are two low storeys tall and have lean-to slate roofs. The right wing has a modern part-glazed entrance with an original 16-pane sash window above it, while the left wing features a similar sash window on the ground floor and a later fixed 8-pane window above. This side also has a modern window under the eaves on its left return and includes a small single-storey lean-to addition at the rear angle between it and the main block.
The interior was not inspected during the survey.
Local climate
Plas Colwyn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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