Cowhouse at Rhiwerfa is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 April 2000. Cowhouse.
Cowhouse at Rhiwerfa
- WRENN ID
- lost-threshold-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 April 2000
- Type
- Cowhouse
- Address
- Cowhouse at Rhiwerfa, Abertrinant, Llanfihangel-Y-Pennant, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 659 061
- Coordinates
- 52.63681, -3.98249
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cowhouse at Rhiwerfa is constructed from thin bedded slate rubble and features a slate roof, slate clad verge, and boarded rafter ends. It consists of four bays, three of which have an open front that is now covered with corrugated iron. The fourth bay, located at the road end, includes a large boarded window and originally had access from the gable end, which is marked by a cut slate lintel that is now blocked.
Local climate
Cowhouse at Rhiwerfa sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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