Walled Court at Plas Bach with attached field walls to S is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 February 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.

Walled Court at Plas Bach with attached field walls to S

WRENN ID
heavy-frieze-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 February 1974
Type
House
Address
Walled Court at Plas Bach with attached field walls to S, LL53 8DE
OS grid reference
SH 119 217
Coordinates
52.76037, -4.78889
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Walled Court at Plas Bach is a group of farm buildings dating from the 18th century, constructed from rubble stone with slate roofs and slate gable copings. The layout is rectangular, featuring a long range along the south side that includes a cart-shed, barn, cow-house, and stable, with shorter wings extending north at both the west and east ends. The courtyard is enclosed by walls that have stepped stone coping at the northeast and northwest corners, with a gabled pig-kitchen located centrally and oriented at right angles to the long north wall.

There is a brick flattened arch providing entry to the courtyard on the north wall, west of the pig-kitchen. The pig-kitchen features a door at the south end and a door and window on the west side, with the window having eight panes over slats. A central brick ridge stack is present. In the northwest corner of the yard, there is a ruinous lean-to row of three pigsties, enclosed by a wall and featuring a broad feed-chute.

The main group of buildings includes an east arm with a vent loop, a door, another loop, a door, and a window similar to that on the pig-kitchen. The roof slates have been partially replaced with asbestos sheets. The long south range has a window under the eaves on the left, a door in the center, and a window and door on the right, with the window resembling that of the pig-kitchen. The short west range has a broad brick flattened arch leading to the cart-shed, and there is a loft light in the north gable end. The outside south wall of the complex features gables at each end, each with a window and door, and an additional door to the right of center. Cobbled paths run along the front of the buildings.

To the south of the complex, there is a small field or hay-yard enclosed by stone walls that have similar stepped coping. The eastern wall continues further south along the island track, opposite the walled court of Cristin. The interiors, typical of other island farms, include cobbled floors in the stables and cow-houses, a slate floor in the barn with a wooden threshing floor, and a slate floor in the pig-kitchen.

Local climate

Walled Court at Plas Bach with attached field walls to S sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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