Bron-y-Cader is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. House.

Bron-y-Cader

WRENN ID
rusted-alcove-moth
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
Bron-y-Cader, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 719 173
Coordinates
52.73899, -3.89872
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bron-y-Cader is a two-storey house featuring three windows and a cross wing at the rear. It is constructed from coursed, squared rubble masonry and has a hipped roof covered with quarry slate, along with deep plastered eaves. The house includes stone stacks and water tabling.

On the first floor, there are twelve-pane sash windows set under the eaves. The ground floor has similar twelve-pane sash windows flanking a central French window, all with stone lintels.

The left end elevation has two windows, which are also twelve-pane sash windows like those at the front. The rear wing has two windows and a hipped roof. There is a later 19th-century porch that is inset at the angle with the front block.

To the south of the house, along the roadside, there is a high rubble garden wall.

Local climate

Bron-y-Cader 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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