T-shaped Field Cowhouse at Gardd-y-Llygaid-y-Dydd is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 November 1998. Cowhouse.
T-shaped Field Cowhouse at Gardd-y-Llygaid-y-Dydd
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-obsidian-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1998
- Type
- Cowhouse
- Address
- T-shaped Field Cowhouse at Gardd-y-Llygaid-y-Dydd, Porthmadog, Beddgelert, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 604 456
- Coordinates
- 52.99009, -4.08027
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This T-shaped field cowhouse at Gardd-y-Llygaid-y-Dydd dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed of rubble on boulder foundations and features an old slate roof with uncoped rubble gable parapets, although the northeast gable is missing its parapet. The long section of the building has entrances at the northeast gable and the center of the long side, as well as an additional entrance to the right of the shorter arm at the rear. The entrances have recessed boarded doors, with the one on the long side covered by a modern corrugated iron catslide porch. The short projecting arm includes a boarded entrance on the northeast return and a ventilation slit in its upper gable.
The cowhouse consists of a four-bay main section and a two-bay subsidiary section, featuring original pegged collar and tiebeam trusses, with the ties cut off at the wall.
Local climate
T-shaped Field Cowhouse at Gardd-y-Llygaid-y-Dydd sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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