The Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 May 1949. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- former-iron-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Farmhouse, Penybryn, Bangor, LL57 1PX
- OS grid reference
- SH 590 724
- Coordinates
- 53.23046, -4.1132
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Farmhouse is a symmetrical, two-storey building from the late Georgian period. It features a 5-bay front made of scribed cement render, with attics in the advanced gabled bays at either end. The roof is covered with slate and has wide eaves at the gables, along with brick chimney stacks. The front includes 12-pane sash windows, with a dummy window in the center above a 6-panel door that has an oval traceried fanlight. There are arched headed sash windows in the attic and modern windows in the inner return walls of the gabled bays. Rubble boundary walls are attached to either end, each with boarded doors, and the left wall borders Penybryn House. At the rear, there are small pane sash windows, including two arched headed windows in the center and a sliding sash window on the right-hand cross range.
Additionally, late Georgian iron railings, dating from around 1817 when the old Holyhead road was constructed, curve around from Penybryn Bridge and continue along the terrace wall to the left. The interior has been modernized due to its conversion into two houses.
Local climate
The Old Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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