Cowhouse at Cynlas Fawr is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. Cowhouse.
Cowhouse at Cynlas Fawr
- WRENN ID
- crooked-threshold-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2001
- Type
- Cowhouse
- Address
- Cowhouse at Cynlas Fawr, Cefn-Ddwysarn, Llandderfel
- OS grid reference
- SH 961 383
- Coordinates
- 52.93233, -3.54662
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cowhouse at Cynlas Fawr is a single-storey rectangular structure built from roughly-squared and roughly-coursed slatestone blocks, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof and featuring boulder corner stones. The main northwest side has six entrances, each with large slate lintels. Currently, only the second and fifth entrances from the left remain open, both fitted with boarded stable-type doors. The first and third entrances are walled up, while the others have six-pane windows with top tilting sections.
Inside, the cowhouse has a five-bay open layout supported by thin 19th-century bolted collar trusses. It originally included tie beams, which have since been removed.
Local climate
Cowhouse at Cynlas Fawr sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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