Ysgubor-fawr old farmhouse, with front garden walls is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 1999. Farmhouse.

Ysgubor-fawr old farmhouse, with front garden walls

WRENN ID
second-stair-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 July 1999
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Ysgubor-fawr old farmhouse, with front garden walls, Caernarfon, Llanaelhaearn
OS grid reference
SH 435 447
Coordinates
52.97676, -4.33219
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ysgubor-fawr is an old farmhouse that includes an attached farm building, constructed from rubble stonework and rendered, with parts that were once painted with red raddle. The building features a grouted old slate roof with stone gable copings and gable stacks. The door and windows have been recently replaced to mimic the original design, although one original 6-pane sash window remains, with the frames set deeply into the walls on either side of the door. The attached farm building, which is slightly narrower, has a lofted roof with a cross passage against the house gable and includes a 2-bay cowhouse at one end, topped with a granary that is accessed from a raised external ground level. There is also an extension to the dairy at the rear, which has an external door, along with a later rendered brick service building.

Inside, the door leads into the living room, which is separated by a short matchboarded partition. The floor is flagged, with some brick towards the rear, and there are two slender cross beams supporting the loft floor. The room features a deep fireplace with an iron range and a brick oven, along with a shelved recess and a small wall-hung dresser against the front wall. To the right of the fireplace, a corner is divided off as a dairy, which extends out and includes a cold slab. Steps from the dairy lead into the later extension. The adjoining farm building has a low floor above, and the cowhouse is open to the roof, featuring a 19th-century cross beam and a manger against the gable end wall. The raised front garden is bordered by battered boulder walls, which have a central opening and additional openings at each end adjacent to the house.

Local climate

Ysgubor-fawr old farmhouse, with front garden walls sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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