Former Cowhouse and hay-barn at Glandwr is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 June 1980. Public house, shop.
Former Cowhouse and hay-barn at Glandwr
- WRENN ID
- mired-threshold-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1980
- Type
- Public house, shop
- Address
- Former Cowhouse and hay-barn at Glandwr, Barmouth, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 638 173
- Coordinates
- 52.73644, -4.01814
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former cowhouse and hay-barn at Glandwr is an L-shaped structure dating from the 19th century. It consists of a long single-storey cowhouse and an unusual storeyed haybarn at the southeast end, which takes advantage of the sloping site. The southeast-northwest range was formerly used for open cart or storage bays, and evidence of a water-wheel has been identified at the left-hand gable before reconstruction. The hay barn features roughly coursed and squared rubble blocks, while the cowhouse is constructed of slab, both topped with slate roofs.
The hay barn has a high loft storey with two open round arches on the east and west sides, and a single arch in the south elevation. A date stone with the initials WHJ, representing William Jones, is located between the two western arches. The lower storey includes a plain central entrance flanked by windows, all with stone lintels, although the windows appear to have been widened from their original ventilation slits.
To the northeast of the hay barn, the cowshed range has an entrance on the left and three windows beyond it, with an opposed doorway and five windows in the rear elevation. The adjoining southeast-northwest range is symmetrical around a wide gabled cross-passage, which features a pigeon loft above the segmentally arched opening in the gable. There are wide entrances to the right-hand two bays, separated by a stone partition wall, and a single wide opening to the left, which is partly walled up with a small opening to the right and wood slatting above.
The hay loft has a queen post roof, the cowhouse has a three-bay king-post roof, and the open bays in the southeast-northwest range have queen strut roofs.
Local climate
Former Cowhouse and hay-barn at Glandwr sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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