Tai Uncorn is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1996. Cottages.
Tai Uncorn
- WRENN ID
- solemn-ashlar-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1996
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Tai Uncorn, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 703 460
- Coordinates
- 52.99592, -3.93374
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Tai Uncorn is a pair of cottages built in the 19th century. The structure is a square, single-storey building made of rubble block with shaved corners and rock foundations on the northeast side. It features a pyramidal slate roof with rounded corners and over-sailing eaves, along with a large, squat chimney stack that has weather-coursing and a cornice, topped with modern cement flaunching. Originally, there were entrances on the south face (two) and one each on the east and west faces. The south entrance is now obscured by a later 19th-century single-storey extension with a pitched slate roof, while modern doors have been added to the other entrances. The window openings beside the entrances are simple and fitted with modern glazing.
The interiors have been modernised, but there was previously ladder access to an attic sleeping loft, according to information from the owner.
Local climate
Tai Uncorn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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