Pair of former Quarry Workers' Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 2001. Cottage.
Pair of former Quarry Workers' Cottages
- WRENN ID
- last-cinder-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2001
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pair of former Quarry Workers' Cottages, Arenig, Bala, Llanycil, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 833 393
- Coordinates
- 52.93844, -3.73667
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This building is a pair of former quarry workers' cottages, dating from the 19th century. They are single-storey and arranged as a reflected pair. The cottages are constructed with a timber frame and have corrugated iron cladding on a rubble plinth. They feature a continuous slate roof with plain wooden bargeboards. Located on the roadside, the cottages are built over a steep gradient at the rear.
They share a squat central chimney made of red brick, which has cornicing and paired ceramic pots. Each cottage has a central projecting porch with a catslide roof, leading to the east (right) return. The right unit has a late Victorian 6-panel door, while the left unit's door is missing. There are single windows flanking the porch for each unit, corresponding to a two-room interior layout. The right-hand windows still have their 9-pane sashes, while the left-hand windows have been blocked up.
The interior was not inspected during the survey.
Local climate
Pair of former Quarry Workers' Cottages 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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