Llwyn is a Grade II* listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. A C18 House.
Llwyn
- WRENN ID
- unlit-foundation-vale
- 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
- House
- Address
- Llwyn, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, LL40 2YF
- OS grid reference
- SH 732 181
- Coordinates
- 52.74592, -3.87927
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Llwyn is a three-storey building with a cellar, featuring a symmetrical front with seven windows. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble masonry, topped with a moderately pitched slate roof at the front, which becomes steeper at the rear. The building has raking gable copings, kneelers, and a cavetto eaves cornice, along with 19th-century stone stacks and water tabling.
The second floor has nine-pane windows set under the eaves, with the bottom six panes forming an opening casement and stone sills. The first and ground floors are adorned with 12-pane sash windows, which have stone lintels and sills. The central doorway features ashlar jambs and a 19th-century door with four glazed panes over two panels, accented by reeded borders and a plain rectangular fanlight. There is a fragment of dressed stone on the front, inscribed with "IESV," located between the second and third windows from the left.
On the right end elevation, there are two blocked, ovolo moulded freestone cross windows, with corresponding blocked windows on the first floor. A 19th-century gabled outhouse is located on the left end elevation, which also has sash windows. The rear elevation includes three hipped stone dormers, with shallow upper sashes for the nine-pane windows. The extreme right features a hipped dormer with an inserted doorway and a modern fire escape. The central cross range has 16-pane sashes and an 18-pane stair window in the raking dormer. There is a lateral stack on the rear of the main building, along with a tall square end stack on the cross wing, and raking gable copings. A lean-to outshut is present on the ground floor to the left.
Inside, the building has transverse ceiling beams and early 19th-century cornices set between them. The ground floor features early 19th-century doorcases with sunk panels, rosettes on the angle blocks, and six-panel doors. The window reveals and soffits are panelled. A notable early 18th-century four-flight dog-leg staircase has turned cannon barrel balusters with gadrooning on the bulbous bases, a large scrolled newel, and handrails that sweep up to the landings, with floral carving on the tread ends and paired turned newels at the landings. The staircase is panelled to dado level, and there are balustraded "windows" in the body of the house at the landings. The first floor features transverse stop-chamfered ceiling beams, and there is an access corridor along the rear of the house leading off the staircase, which includes three fine early 18th-century doorcases with heavy dentil cornices and pulvinated bands over lugged, moulded architraves.
Local climate
Llwyn 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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