Ffynnon-Bedr Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 March 1953. Cottage.
Ffynnon-Bedr Cottage
- WRENN ID
- endless-hammer-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1953
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ffynnon-Bedr Cottage, Llanbedr-Y-Cennin, Caerhun, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 763 690
- Coordinates
- 53.20377, -3.85328
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ffynnon-Bedr Cottage is a two-storey, three-window cottage built from whitened rubble with prominent boulder foundations. It has a modern slate roof featuring plain end chimneys. The entrance is off-centre to the left and includes a modern part-glazed door. To the left of the entrance is a two-pane early 20th-century casement window, while to the right is a similar four-pane window. The first floor has three additional casement windows located under the eaves. To the left, there is a later flush lean-to with a slate roof and a boarded door at the front.
At the centre rear, there is an 18th or 19th-century outshut that was raised to two storeys about twenty years ago, with an entrance on its right return under a slated open porch. An earlier 20th-century gabled dormer is situated on the left side of the main block roof, featuring a four-pane casement window. Below this, large modern French doors provide access to the ground floor. To the right of the central projecting block, there is an earlier 20th-century brick WC extension, accompanied by a small store to the right, which has a corrugated iron roof. A small square light with plain glazing is located on the right gable of the main block.
Inside, the ground floor has a slate flagged floor. The larger hall section on the right is separated from the end bay on the left by a crude partition made of timber uprights, with the infill removed. An early 19th-century plain stair with stick balusters is adjacent to the hall, featuring a mid-Victorian turned pine newel post with a ball finial. The ceiling has roughly chamfered beams and narrow, shallow-chamfered joists. A large inglenook fireplace is located at the right gable end, complete with a wide, chamfered bressummer, and the walls at this end are up to 1.5 meters thick. The roof is supported by 19th-century bolted collar trusses.
Local climate
Ffynnon-Bedr Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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