Rafel is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 2001. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Rafel
- WRENN ID
- dim-bonework-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 October 2001
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Rafel, Parc, Bala, Llanycil, Gwynedd, LL23 7YU
- OS grid reference
- SH 888 340
- Coordinates
- 52.8925, -3.65311
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Rafel is a one-and-a-half-storey vernacular farmhouse with later additions on both the right and left sides, along with a single-storey wing that extends at right angles to the right. The building is constructed from whitened rubble with boulder foundations and features a heavily-grouted slate roof, topped with squat end chimneys on the main farmhouse. The main elevation faces a yard to the north and has an off-centre entrance on the left, which includes a modern single-storey porch made of whitened breeze blocks. The entrance has a ribbed, boarded outer door and a boarded inner door.
Flanking the entrance are windows with 4-pane late 19th-century casements, with those on the upper floor set within catslide dormers. The ground floor windows have exposed wooden lintels. To the left, there is a later lean-to addition with a modern window. Attached to the primary house on the right is a 19th-century service bay that features a dormer in the roof, similar to the main house, and an entrance on the right with an open 20th-century wind porch. This entrance has a boarded door with a 4-pane rectangular overlight.
The advanced wing on the right partly overlaps the service bay and consists of a former stable block on the right and a cart-bay section on the left, both under a continuous roof. The stable section has a modern door with a canopy porch and a 3-part casement window to the right, as well as a modern rooflight. A slated lean-to is attached to the right, featuring a boarded door with an overlight.
Inside, the former hall and parlour have stopped-chamfered main (lateral) beams and plain joists. A later vertically-studded partition divides part of the hall to create an entrance lobby with a later stair. The hall also features an inglenook fireplace with a stopped-chamfered bressummer. The roof is a four-bay structure with pegged collar trusses.
Local climate
Rafel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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