Fowl House at Drws yr Ymlid Farm (including rubble-walled yard) is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1993. Farm-building.
Fowl House at Drws yr Ymlid Farm (including rubble-walled yard)
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-cornice-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1993
- Type
- Farm-building
- Address
- Fowl House at Drws yr Ymlid Farm (including rubble-walled yard), Llanfair, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 597 305
- Coordinates
- 52.85375, -4.08447
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Fowl House at Drws yr Ymlid Farm is a 19th-century farm building designed as a general fowl-house for chickens and geese, intended to protect these animals from foxes. The structure is built from local rubble and features a monopitched slate roof. To the west, it is separated from the farmhouse forecourt by a small rectangular enclosure that is open to the south. On the eastern side of the fowl-house is a quadrant-shaped yard, also walled with rubble and gated, which provides access to the building.
Originally, the fowl-house would have had an internal floor. Access is provided on the eastern side through two openings separated by a slate lintel: a small square opening for chickens above a taller opening for geese. Near the entrance on the northern side of the yard is a small goose pen, which is a low rectangular recess with a stone lintel. Inside, the fowl-house has a stone-flagged floor.
Local climate
Fowl House at Drws yr Ymlid Farm (including rubble-walled yard) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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