Maes Caled is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. House.
Maes Caled
- WRENN ID
- rusted-plaster-bittern
- 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
- Maes Caled, 5 Towyn Road, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, LL40 1UF
- OS grid reference
- SH 722 177
- Coordinates
- 52.74184, -3.89331
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Maes Caled is currently three cottages, with the one on the right having formerly served as the lodge to Bryn-yr-Odyn. The building is one and a half storeys tall and features a three-window elevation with a gable at the center. It is constructed of coursed rubble masonry and has a moderately pitched slate roof with deep eaves and exposed purlins supported by brackets with corbels. There are twin diagonal stone flue stacks on a rectangular base and water tabling.
To the left, there is a raking dormer with two-light casement windows. The gable features a canted oriel window supported by a moulded stone bracket, topped with a fishscale slate roof and modern glazing. A Victorian Gothic open gabled timber porch with stone sidewalls is located at the center, showcasing paired Tudor arches, a billet moulded tie-beam, scalloped bargeboards, and fishscale slates. The porch has paired, diagonally planked Victorian doors adorned with decorative straps.
Above the left side, there is a moulded returned label over three round-arched lights of a dressed stone window, and a similar label over a modern window to the right. The extreme right has a two-light dressed stone window. The right gable end features a cambered arched three-light window with round-arched lights. To the left, there is an ashlar closed porch with a shouldered gable parapet on kneelers above a pointed doorway, which has a datestone from 1832 at the apex. The fishscale slate roof continues with a two-light mullion and transom window to the right, also with a label. Finally, there are ashlar gatepiers with stepped caps at the former gateway on the left.
Local climate
Maes Caled 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
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