Parallel Farm Ranges and linking arched entrance into lower farmyard 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 buildings. 2 related planning applications.

Parallel Farm Ranges and linking arched entrance into lower farmyard at Glynllifon College Farm

WRENN ID
far-forge-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 September 1998
Type
Farm buildings
Address
Parallel Farm Ranges and linking arched entrance into lower farmyard at Glynllifon College Farm, Llandwrog, LL54 5DU
OS grid reference
SH 458 555
Coordinates
53.07486, -4.30306
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Parallel Farm Ranges and linking arched entrance at Glynllifon College Farm is a central U-shaped block dating from the 19th century. It features stables on the left (north) and a cowhouse on the right (south). These two structures are connected at their western end by a tall gabled gateway that has a round-arched entrance with brick voussoirs. The arch is flanked by full-height pilaster buttresses that are gabled at the top and have slate coping, similar to the main gable. This design resembles those found on buildings attributed to the 2nd Lord Newborough, such as the Workshops west of Glynllifon. The archway leads to a passage between the rear walls of the stables and cowhouse, both of which are accessed from their outer sides and feature rounded corners at their eastern ends.

The stables include alternating split boarded stable doors and large windows with small panes above slatted ventilators. There are modern yards added for pigs. The rear of the stables has small-pane pivot windows below the eaves, and the uphill (east) gable end features an oculus and a square-headed doorway.

The cowhouse has five segmental arched openings on its southern side, facing an enclosed area of the farmyard that is covered by a pair of semicircular corrugated iron roofs. The east gable end has an enlarged opening leading to the feed walk and an oculus in the gable. There is a central doorway on the inner side. The cowhouse has king-post roof trusses, but the interior was not accessible during the inspection.

Local climate

Parallel Farm Ranges and linking arched entrance into lower farmyard 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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