Cowhouse at Maes-Caradoc is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 May 2000. Cowhouse. 6 related planning applications.
Cowhouse at Maes-Caradoc
- WRENN ID
- sombre-pedestal-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2000
- Type
- Cowhouse
- Address
- Cowhouse at Maes-Caradoc, Nant Ffrancon, Llandygai, Gwynedd, LL57 3DQ
- OS grid reference
- SH 635 626
- Coordinates
- 53.14358, -4.04156
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Cowhouse at Maes-Caradoc is a low L-plan building dating from the 19th century, aligned approximately east-west. It is constructed of roughly coursed rubblestone and features a slate roof with ridge ventilators and slate coping on the east gable end. The north wall has a roughly central entrance with a stable door, flanked by two ventilation slits on the left and one on the right. There is also a boarded opening in the east gable end, which has a beaded frame and a tripartite fanlight above it. The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Cowhouse at Maes-Caradoc sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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