Stables, Cart Shelter and Cowhouse Range at Ty-hen is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 May 1999. Farm buildings.

Stables, Cart Shelter and Cowhouse Range at Ty-hen

WRENN ID
inner-string-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 May 1999
Type
Farm buildings
Address
Stables, Cart Shelter and Cowhouse Range at Ty-hen, Llanwnda, Caernarfon
OS grid reference
SH 470 576
Coordinates
53.09377, -4.28501
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The stables, cart shelter, and cowhouse range at Ty-hen is a U-shaped group of farm buildings arranged around a farmyard. The short east range contains stables, while the long south range features a cart shelter at its eastern end and cowhouses to the west. A rubblestone wall runs roughly north-south, separating the cart shelter and stables from the rest of the buildings. The walls are made of irregularly coursed rubblestone, and the roofs are slate, although much of the south range has been covered with tin sheeting.

The east range includes stable doors and windows, while the cart shelter has three elliptical-arched openings with red brick arches. The cowhouses in the south range and extending into the west range have stable doors and vertically louvered windows under large slate-stone lintels. There are also two cart entrances with large slate-stone lintels, one of which has a small eaves window above it at the north end of the west range. The gable end of this range features steep stone steps with a retaining wall leading to a recessed boarded door, which is flanked by multi-paned horizontal sliding sashes that light the hay-loft. A similar eaves window is located on the back wall. The south gable end, which overlooks a field, has a boarded door set well above ground level with a ventilation slit to the right. Additional ventilation slits and original windows can be found on the south wall of the south range, which also has a stable door accessed by external steps from the field.

The interior was not accessible at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Stables, Cart Shelter and Cowhouse Range at Ty-hen 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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