Pen-Y-Bedw is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 October 1966. House.
Pen-Y-Bedw
- WRENN ID
- silver-solder-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pen-Y-Bedw, Bro Machno, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 779 483
- Coordinates
- 53.0188, -3.8204
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pen-Y-Bedw is a building constructed with roughly coursed rubble masonry and features 19th-century slate roofs. The northern house has a large square chimney on the left and a smaller gabled brick extension. The first-floor windows are set at the eaves, with a 2-light casement on the left and a 4-pane square sash on the right. There is a roughly central front door located under a gabled brick porch, with a 3-light casement to the left and a vertically-proportioned window to the right. The southern house has a rectangular chimney and two 2-light casements on the first floor, with a smaller sash to the right; the first-floor windows are also set at the eaves. The front door is roughly central, with a 2-light casement to the left and a broader 3-light window to the right. At the rear, the northern house features a lean-to extension dating from around 1800.
The houses are extended to the north with a 2-storey lofted stable and cartshed, built in the late 18th or early 19th century. This structure is made of random rubble with a thin slate roof and simple stone lintels over the openings. The west-facing side has a broad cartshed doorway and a small square window for the stable on the left. In the northern gable, there is a square-headed door leading to the stable and stone steps leading up to the loft doorway. At the rear, stone steps at a right angle lead up to the cartshed loft.
The northern section is said to have a roughly hewn main ceiling beam and a deeply splayed fireplace with a large wooden lintel supported at the ends by corbels. There is a square stone staircase to the right. The southern section is noted for having a more massive exposed ceiling beam that is chamfered with intermediate stops, similar to those found at Coed-y-Ffynnon.
Local climate
Pen-Y-Bedw 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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