Pen-y-bont Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1990. Cottage.

Pen-y-bont Cottages

WRENN ID
empty-window-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 July 1990
Type
Cottage
Address
Pen-y-bont Cottages, 4 A493, Pantperthog, Machynlleth, Corris, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 744 019
Coordinates
52.60085, -3.85591
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Nos 1 - 6 Pen-y-bont Cottages are a row of six 2-storey cottages located in the Corris Community. The cottages vary in form and width and are slightly angled at the center, with the eastern pair, Nos 5 and 6, stepping up slightly due to a rise in the land. They are constructed of stone and pebbledash, featuring painted margins around many of the window and door openings, as well as a painted plinth. The doors are generally boarded, and the windows are either casement or sash. The cottages have slate roofs with red tile ridges and feature stone and blue-brick chimney stacks, along with low forecourt walls.

The row consists of two bays, extending into an additional bay that was formerly a separate cottage to the west. The two eastern bays are approximately symmetrical, each with a central boarded door and 4-pane horned sash windows, along with sliding sash windows on the first floor. The additional bay has a former door that has been converted into a window, a 4-pane sash window, and a small-paned window on the upper floor. There is a dark brick stack and a stone stack on the western party wall.

Local climate

Pen-y-bont Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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