Gardd-Llygaid-y-Dydd (Old House) is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 May 1968. House.

Gardd-Llygaid-y-Dydd (Old House)

WRENN ID
hushed-steel-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 May 1968
Type
House
Address
Gardd-Llygaid-y-Dydd (Old House), Caernarfon, Beddgelert, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 605 457
Coordinates
52.99064, -4.07921
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gardd-Llygaid-y-Dydd, also known as the Old House, is a small, single-storey house built of rubble with a prominent boulder plinth on the left side at the downhill gable end. It features an old slate roof with a squat end chimney on the right, which has weathercoursing. The entrance is off-centre to the left and has a recessed modern door. To the right, there is a 4-light modern casement window in the main opening, and another modern window is located on the left gable end. At the rear, there is a simple 19th-century lean-to on the right with a corrugated iron roof and a window on the left, similar to the others.

Inside, the house has a two-bay layout that was originally undivided. It includes a crude tie-beam and pegged collar truss, and the floor is laid with slate flags. There is a large end fireplace on the right, which has been partly reduced and features a stopped-chamfered bressummer, with an oven inserted in the late 19th or early 20th century. The left bay is floored and partly partitioned, although the modern loft may reflect the earlier arrangement.

Local climate

Gardd-Llygaid-y-Dydd (Old House) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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