Garden walls with lookout at Taltreuddyn-Fawr is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 October 2006. Garden walls, lookout. 2 related planning applications.

Garden walls with lookout at Taltreuddyn-Fawr

WRENN ID
sleeping-tallow-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 October 2006
Type
Garden walls, lookout
Address
Garden walls with lookout at Taltreuddyn-Fawr, Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd, LL44 2RQ
OS grid reference
SH 582 256
Coordinates
52.80979, -4.10461
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The garden walls at Taltreuddyn-Fawr are characteristic of the dry stone walls found in Ardudwy, built using field stone and serving to mark boundaries. The western section includes a gateway leading to the field beyond and features a circular lookout with a viewing platform, which is accessed by steps from the garden. This lookout has a low parapet wall that is informally crenellated. Additionally, there is another gateway with a simple strap iron gate located in the wall separating the formal garden from the orchard.

Local climate

Garden walls with lookout at Taltreuddyn-Fawr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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