Refectory at Penmon Priory is a Grade I listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 2002. Refectory.

Refectory at Penmon Priory

WRENN ID
silver-eave-marsh
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Constituency
Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 July 2002
Type
Refectory
Address
Refectory at Penmon Priory, Llangoed
OS grid reference
SH 630 807
Coordinates
53.30558, -4.05683
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The refectory at Penmon Priory is a significant, roofless structure that consists of three stories of monastic buildings made from local rubble masonry, featuring limestone dressings and large boulders as quoins. The refectory itself has five windows, including three narrow lights for the dormitory and three openings leading to the cellars below. There is a doorway on the left and narrow windows with deep slayed reveals on the right. The west return of the building has a tall lancet window at the gable apex and two rectangular lights for the refectory. A blocked arched window is visible from the cloister courtyard to the north.

An addition known as the warming room is located at the eastern end, which has similarly styled cellar openings and a doorway on the right. The east gable features a single first-floor window with paired arched lights and square-headed openings on each floor, along with doveholes in the gable apex.

Inside the building, the positions of each floor are clearly marked in the masonry, visible as ledges along the lateral walls and joist holes. The warming room retains fireplaces on both the lower and first floors; the first floor fireplace has square jambs and an elliptical arch, with a small carved bust on the left jamb. In the northeast corner, there is a small doorway leading to a narrow passage that connects to a garderobe, which features a corbelled vault and a blocked loop in the east wall.

Local climate

Refectory at Penmon Priory sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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