Wern Fawr is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. Farmhouse.
Wern Fawr
- WRENN ID
- weathered-thatch-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2001
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Wern Fawr, Cwmtirmynach, Bala, Llandderfel
- OS grid reference
- SH 913 406
- Coordinates
- 52.95236, -3.61863
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Wern Fawr is a rectangular two-storey farmhouse built in the 19th century, featuring a three-unit lobby entry plan. The structure is made of local rubble with boulder foundations and has a medium-steep slate roof. The right gable has an uncoped rubble parapet and crude stone kneelers. A tall central chimney is present, along with a reduced end chimney on the right gable, both having weathercoursing and plain capping. The current rear elevation was originally the front, which includes an off-centre primary entrance on the right with an early 20th-century part-glazed door. To the left of the entrance are two primary windows with 4-pane 20th-century casements, along with a sympathetically enlarged 6-pane modern window beyond. The upper floor features two 12-pane, 2-light casements on the left and a plain-glazed window on the far right. There is a corrugated iron lean-to store attached to the left gable.
The elevation facing the farmyard has an entrance on the right, which is enclosed within a modern brick lean-to porch topped with a corrugated metal roof. Adjacent to this on the left is a larger breeze-block lean-to. To the left of this lean-to, the primary block has a broad, shallow lateral outshut with an entrance on the left, featuring a part-glazed 20th-century door. To the left of this outshut is an unglazed 4-pane Victorian sash window, with a catslide dormer above that has a modern window. There are three further modern windows on the upper floor to the right, with tilting upper casement sections.
Inside, the lobby-entry plan includes beamed ceilings in the hall and parlour, featuring stopped-chamfered joists and ogee stops on the main beam. Both rooms have large fireplaces, each with bracketed early 19th-century mantelshelves and stopped-chamfered bressummers. Beyond the former parlour is a pantry that includes a slate-lined bin and slate-slab L-shaped surfaces around two sides, dating from the 19th century.
Local climate
Wern Fawr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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