Field barn below Ffridd is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 1999. Barn.
Field barn below Ffridd
- WRENN ID
- dusk-passage-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1999
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Field barn below Ffridd, Aberangell, Mawddwy, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 826 111
- Coordinates
- 52.68522, -3.73749
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building is a field barn dating from the 18th century, located below Ffridd. It features a combination of timber framing between stone gable ends, with some stone walling at the eastern end. The barn has a continuous old thick slate roof, although much of the southern slope has been replaced with corrugated iron. It consists of six bays, with a central three-bay barn. There is a pitching door on the western gable end, and small doors lead into the central bay of the barn.
Inside, there are five trusses of varying construction. Trusses two, three, and five from the west are originally partly or fully filled. Truss two includes a tie beam and principal rafters made from re-used cruck blades, which are trenched for the tie beam. The fifth and sixth bays have stone walls on the southern side, likely replacing earlier timber framing. The walling framework is grooved to accommodate wattle and daub, which has since been replaced with the current weatherboarding. The central threshing bay of the barn features a timber floor.
Local climate
Field barn below Ffridd sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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