Benar Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1992. House.
Benar Barn
- WRENN ID
- woven-vault-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1992
- Type
- House
- Address
- Benar Barn, Bro Machno, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 794 517
- Coordinates
- 53.04971, -3.7999
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Benar Barn is a 19th-century agricultural building constructed with coursed local flat rubble slabs on the gable ends and random rubble on the long sides, set on a plinth. It features a modern slate roof. The front elevation includes a camber-headed doorway with blue brick dressings, and there are camber-headed windows on the ground floor, which are 19th-century in their current form. Above these windows, there are openings to a former loft set at the eaves, also adorned with blue brick dressings and small pane agricultural-type glazing, along with vents below. The gable end facing the house has a loft doorway with a simple stone lintel, while the opposite gable end has a loft doorway or window that is obscured by a 19th-century extension. The building has been extended to the northeast as a single-storey outbuilding, constructed in local rubble with a slate roof, featuring a square-headed doorway and a square agricultural-type small-pane window to the right.
Inside the barn, there are massive stop-chamfered hewn beams, and it was formerly completely lofted, with a few stop-chamfered joists still remaining. Much of the old roof structure is intact.
Local climate
Benar Barn 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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