Drws yr Ymlid Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1993. Farmhouse.
Drws yr Ymlid Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- veiled-corbel-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1993
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Drws yr Ymlid Farmhouse, Llanfair, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 597 304
- Coordinates
- 52.85353, -4.08467
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Drws yr Ymlid Farmhouse is a two-storey farmhouse that features an added and raised service wing at the rear, creating a roughly L-shaped layout. It has a large external stack at the left (southeast) gable.
The building is constructed from local coursed rubble masonry set on boulder foundations, with large stones used for the quoins and lintels. The main section of the house has a slate roof laid in diminishing courses, with a tiled ridge that follows the original ridge line. The roof is finished with stone copings and large stone stacks that include dripstones; the southeast gable features a prominent external stack with a stepped base. The roof level of the rear wing has been raised, and a new slated gabled roof has been added. There is a rectangular ridge stack at the northeast end, close to the main range, and small rooflights are present in both pitches of the rear wing as well as in the rear pitch of the main range.
The principal elevation faces the farmyard and associated buildings to the northeast and consists of a three-window range. This elevation has an almost central entrance with a boarded door and four-pane horned sash windows that have stone sills and ground floor lintels; the window to the left is larger. The openings are centrally placed, flanked by wide expanses of walling. At the rear, there are hoodmoulds above former openings that are flanking and partially blocked by the rear wing. A new window opening has been cut to the left of the external stack at the southeast gable.
The rear wing features openings in the southeast wall, including a doorway at the left end and a single window to the right. The roof level has been raised, and a window has been inserted in the gable apex at the southwest end.
At the downhill end, the rubble walling that adjoins the front but is not bonded into it appears to be the remains of a former lean-to beside the chimney or a screen wall.
The interior was not inspected during the survey, but the owners report that it includes splayed window openings, a central staircase, and collared roof trusses with curved feet.
Local climate
Drws yr Ymlid Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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