Cowhouse/granary and pigsties at Eithinog-uchaf is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 July 2000. Agricultural building.
Cowhouse/granary and pigsties at Eithinog-uchaf
- WRENN ID
- silent-courtyard-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 July 2000
- Type
- Agricultural building
- Address
- Cowhouse/granary and pigsties at Eithinog-uchaf, Penygroes, Llanllyfni
- OS grid reference
- SH 454 530
- Coordinates
- 53.05268, -4.3074
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building at Eithinog-uchaf is a cowhouse and granary, along with pigsties, constructed from roughly coursed rubblestone and topped with slate roofs. The cowhouse and granary features slate slabs on the front slope. It has two doorways at the front, alternating with three small multi-paned and ventilated windows, all of which have stone lintels. There are ventilation slits to the left of center and to the right, although the latter is blocked. A set of stone steps with a retaining wall on the right gable end leads to a boarded door. Additionally, there are small rooflights at the front and back that illuminate the loft at this end.
Behind the cowhouse are the pigsties, which are larger and positioned at right angles, featuring a gable-ended roof and three pens. There is also a smaller lean-to type pigsty, which is free-standing and has two pens. The loft at the right end contains corn bins and an A-frame truss.
Local climate
Cowhouse/granary and pigsties at Eithinog-uchaf sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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