Rhydloew is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. Cottage, terrace.
Rhydloew
- WRENN ID
- iron-bailey-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2001
- Type
- Cottage, terrace
- Address
- Rhydloew, 5 Church St, Llanuwchllyn, Bala, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 873 303
- Coordinates
- 52.85854, -3.67495
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Rhydloew is a two-storey terrace of six former single-window cottages located on Church Street. The terrace consists of five cottages with a larger two-window unit at the left end. The buildings are constructed from local igneous rubble and feature a continuous medium-pitched slate roof with six chimneys made of buff stock brick, which have cornice banding and offset dentilations. The ground floor has cambered brick openings, while the first-floor windows are situated under the eaves.
No 1 is a two-window unit with a central entrance and a large left-hand window that suggests it may have originally been used as a shop. It has a modern door that is not in keeping with the character of the building and uPVC windows that mimic small-pane cross-windows, along with similar first-floor glazing designed to look like two-part, six-pane casements. Nos 2 and 3 are also two-window units. No 2 features a part-glazed 20th-century door and uPVC windows that imitate four-pane designs on the ground floor and two-pane casements on the first floor. No 3 retains its original boarded and framed door and small-pane, timber-framed cross-windows with wrought iron opening lights.
To the right of No 3 is a former cottage that has been divided and absorbed into Nos 3 and 4. This unit, along with the others in the row, was originally a one-window cottage. The former entrance has been reduced to a plain-glazed cross-window and is now part of No 3. The adjacent window, now part of No 4, is a plain-glazed, two-pane 20th-century casement, which has a plain 20th-century door and a similar window to the right. No 5 retains its original door and upper floor window, while No 6 has uPVC cross-windows and a modern part-glazed door that does not match the original style.
The interior was not inspected during the survey.
Local climate
Rhydloew sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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