Old Ynysfor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. Farmhouse.

Old Ynysfor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
hidden-clay-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 November 1966
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Ynysfor Farmhouse, Porthmadog, Llanfrothen
OS grid reference
SH 600 426
Coordinates
52.96259, -4.08521
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Old Ynysfor Farmhouse is a two-storey end-chimney house dating from the 19th century, featuring a flush, continuously-roofed cart-house addition on the left (southeast) side and lower extensions at the rear, creating a T-plan layout. The building is constructed of rubble on part boulder foundations, with the former render having been removed. It has slate roofs, with later crow-stepped gable parapets on the southeast and rear gables, and plain chimneys, one of which on the right side (former parlour) is rendered.

The main section has a nearly symmetrical, three-bay front with a central entrance. The entrance features an early 19th-century six-panelled door with raised and fielded panels, the lower two being boarded, and includes a rectangular overlight with intersecting lozenge glazing. The ground and first floors are fitted with early 19th-century 16-pane unhorned sash windows. The adjoining cart-house addition has two wide cart entrances; the left entrance is open with a timber lintel, while the right has boarded double doors and a slate lintel. There are also two small late 19th-century four-pane sashes on the upper floor and a loading bay with a modern window on the southeast gable.

At the rear, there is a lower storeyed gabled addition with a later adjoining outshut to the right, also featuring crow-stepped gables. Inside, there is a simple late 19th-century staircase leading to a central stair hall, with a boarded door to the former hall on the left. The first floor has two two-panel doors and retains an original four-bay pegged collar and tie-beam truss roof.

Local climate

Old Ynysfor Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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