Northern Range to lower farmyard, including attached cross-range to east, at Glynllifon College Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 September 1998. Farm building.

Northern Range to lower farmyard, including attached cross-range to east, at Glynllifon College Farm

WRENN ID
sleeping-balcony-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 September 1998
Type
Farm building
Address
Northern Range to lower farmyard, including attached cross-range to east, at Glynllifon College Farm, Llandwrog
OS grid reference
SH 458 555
Coordinates
53.07501, -4.30274
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Northern Range to the lower farmyard at Glynllifon College Farm is a long farmyard structure built from local rubble and topped with a hipped slate roof that features vents. The south side has some modern windows with cemented lintels, but retains slit vents at the rear. The broad west end has sliding doors with a slate hood. At the east end, on the inner (south) side, there is a former gabled porch with a datestone from 1852, although the original doorway now has an inserted window.

At the uphill, east end, there is a cross range that connects to a short range stepped up at the north end, likely a former boiler house due to its unusually tall chimney. This section is also constructed of local rubble and features slate roofs with wide eaves typical of earlier 19th-century work on the estate. The red brick chimney has a neck band and a stepped base. On either side of the link between the ranges are round-arched doorways that lead to a through passage connecting the two farmyards. The east side of the former boiler house includes a door with an overlight opposite the chimney and a pair of windows to the right.

The building was not accessible at the time of inspection.

Local climate

Northern Range to lower farmyard, including attached cross-range to east, at Glynllifon College Farm 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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