E Farmyard Range including water-wheel at Nant Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 March 1989. Farm buildings.

E Farmyard Range including water-wheel at Nant Farm

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 March 1989
Type
Farm buildings
Address
E Farmyard Range including water-wheel at Nant Farm, Boduan, Pwllheli, Buan
OS grid reference
SH 310 384
Coordinates
52.91682, -4.51352
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

E Farmyard Range, including the water-wheel at Nant Farm, is a linear group of single-storey farm buildings attached to the service range at the south end of the farmhouse. Constructed from granite rubble stone with slate roofs, this range is part of an L-plan layout that includes a stable, mill-room, wheel-pit, and barn, all facing west in line with the house. The north-facing cow-house and cart shed are listed separately.

The buildings feature granite rubble walls and slated gabled roofs with shallow eaves. The stable has a window, door, and another window under the eaves, with the windows displaying the typical Glynllifon Estate design of a slatted or boarded lower half and small-paned upper half. In the center of the range, there is a low door leading to the mill-room. The barn to the right has a tall boarded door in the center and two loops to the right. The mill tail-race is culverted under the farmyard.

Inside the barn, there is a threshing floor with stone flags on each side and two rear doors, one of which leads to the mill-room. The barn features a 3-bay roof with some replaced timbers. There is a boarded door to the wheel-pit, with a race channelled from the mill pond at the rear. The overshot water wheel, equipped with timber buckets and located in the cross-passage, drives a shaft that projects through the barn wall and along its full length, with pulleys that operate threshing and winnowing machines, controlled by a lower wheel. The stables include boxes for three horses, complete with fittings and a cobbled floor. There is a boarded partition with the mill-room and a connecting door, as well as a stone flagged floor and loft above. The water wheel machinery consists of two toothed wheels and a gear lever, while the gorse mill has been removed.

Local climate

E Farmyard Range including water-wheel at Nant Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,660 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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