Cow house at Bryndinas is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 June 2005. A C18 Animal house.
Cow house at Bryndinas
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-jade-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 June 2005
- Type
- Animal house
- Address
- Cow house at Bryndinas, Cwm Maethlon (Happy Valley), Tywyn, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SN 635 985
- Coordinates
- 52.56742, -4.01522
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cow house at Bryndinas is a 19th-century rubble-stone animal house topped with a corrugated iron roof. It faces the yard on the north side and features two replacement doors, with the door to the right of center being lower than the other. The left gable end has a loading doorway that leads to a former loft, while the right gable end includes a doorway with a split boarded door. Inside, the building retains two 18th-century tie-beam trusses.
Local climate
Cow house at Bryndinas 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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