Old cottage and smithy at Groes Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 1999. Cottage, smithy.
Old cottage and smithy at Groes Hall
- WRENN ID
- brooding-cornice-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1999
- Type
- Cottage, smithy
- Address
- Old cottage and smithy at Groes Hall, Llansannan
- OS grid reference
- SJ 008 648
- Coordinates
- 53.17136, -3.48429
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Cottage and Smithy at Groes Hall is a single-storey building with a lofted cartshed at the west end, creating an L-shaped plan. It is constructed from rubble masonry with brick dressings and features a slate roof. The cottage roof has projecting verges and alternating courses of scalloped slates, while the lofted cartshed has a tiled ridge and a single brick stack with capping located at the left (east) end of the cottage.
The cottage has a single door on the right and a 16-pane horizontally sliding sash window on the left, both topped with shallow elliptically arched brick heads. To the left of the cottage, there is a wide doorway fitted with a large, modern sliding boarded door. The lofted cartshed at the right (west) end includes a wide open doorway, which has been recut, with brick jambs and a timber lintel. There is also a single 6-pane light on the first floor, positioned directly under the eaves and offset to the right (north).
At the rear (west), there is a blocked circular opening with brick dressings, offset to the left (north) on the ground floor, along with a single first-floor ventilation slit. The south gable return features a bricked-in opening leading to the loft.
Local climate
Old cottage and smithy at Groes Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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