Chaff mill and carthouse at Cwmannog is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 May 1996. Gospel hall.

Chaff mill and carthouse at Cwmannog

WRENN ID
idle-screen-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 May 1996
Type
Gospel hall
Address
Chaff mill and carthouse at Cwmannog, Trefriw, Conwy
OS grid reference
SH 771 631
Coordinates
53.15138, -3.8378
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The chaff mill and carthouse at Cwmannog is a building from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It consists of two adjoining sections: a two-storey chaff mill on the left and a single-storey carthouse that is flush with it, though its roof is slightly lower. Both sections are constructed of rubble, with the chaff mill featuring an old slated roof and the carthouse having a roof covered with small slates and a boulder plinth.

The chaff mill has a single square window opening in the center, with two similar windows above it beneath the eaves. These windows have pegged wooden frames and internal boarded shutters. On the left side, there is a large, later 19th-century rubble buttress. The left gable end of the mill features a large overshot waterwheel made of iron and timber. There is a central upper entrance with a catslide dormer roof at the rear and a boarded door. The carthouse has a plain entrance on the road-facing side and a large, plain cart entrance on the right gable end.

Inside the mill section, there is a two-bay roof with a crude collar truss. A late 19th-century or early 20th-century chaff cutter by Bamford is still in place on the upper floor and can be operated by both the mill wheel and manually.

Local climate

Chaff mill and carthouse at Cwmannog sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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