Cynthog-Isaf is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 October 2001. Former house-and-byre farmstead.
Cynthog-Isaf
- WRENN ID
- graven-cornice-pine
- 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
- Former house-and-byre farmstead
- Address
- Cynthog-Isaf, Parc, Bala, Llanycil, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 878 357
- Coordinates
- 52.90757, -3.66921
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Cynthog-Isaf is a vernacular one-and-a-half-storey former house-and-byre farmstead. It is constructed of rubble with boulder foundations and features a whitened front elevation. The roof is heavily grouted slate with squat end chimneys on the farmhouse section and simple capping. There is an off-centre gabled porch with stone side walls and a timber roof and gable, the latter being boarded. Inside the porch, there is a slatestone bench and a boarded inner door. On either side of the porch are window openings with 20th-century steel-framed glazing, and the upper floor windows are tucked under the eaves.
To the left, there is the byre section, which was altered in the later 19th century. This section has an entrance on the right with a boarded door and a 4-pane casement window to the left, both featuring cambered brick heads made of yellow stock brick. Beyond this is a cart bay with a segmental arch, also constructed of stock brick. The rear elevation is unwhitened and has a 6-pane 19th-century sash window in the centre, along with a rubble dairy outshut to the far left. The interior was not inspected during the survey.
Local climate
Cynthog-Isaf 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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