Pair of Cowhouses at Pentre Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 May 2000. Cowhouses.
Pair of Cowhouses at Pentre Farm
- WRENN ID
- standing-corridor-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2000
- Type
- Cowhouses
- Address
- Pair of Cowhouses at Pentre Farm, Nant Ffrancon, Llandygai, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 639 615
- Coordinates
- 53.13368, -4.03469
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The pair of cowhouses at Pentre Farm date from the 19th century and are situated parallel to each other, built into a hillside and aligned approximately from south-west to north-east. The upper parts of their south-west gable ends are roughly level with the road. They are constructed from roughly coursed rubblestone and feature slate roofs with rough stone coping along the verges.
The south-eastern cowhouse is the longer of the two, with its north-eastern gable end projecting beyond that of the other cowhouse. It has a hatched opening on the south-west gable end, with stones projecting above to serve as a drip. There is a window in the upper part of the north-east gable end and two doorways in the north-western long wall.
The north-western cowhouse features an opening with a 20th-century window in the south-west gable end and a boarded door on the ground floor of the north-east gable end. Additionally, there is a boarded door, which appears to be modern, and a small blocked window in the long wall. The interior was not accessible at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Pair of Cowhouses at Pentre Farm 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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