Coed Mawr Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 May 1995. Fort, museum.
Coed Mawr Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- burning-latch-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1995
- Type
- Fort, museum
- Address
- Coed Mawr Farmhouse, Llanfachreth, Brithdir and Llanfachreth, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 749 223
- Coordinates
- 52.78457, -3.85582
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Coed Mawr Farmhouse comprises three interconnected ranges forming a rough J-shaped plan. The construction is primarily rubble, with slate roofs, although the main roof is modern. A tall octagonal chimney sits on a square base to the right. The main block has two modern windows on its farmyard-facing side, with a later gabled rubble porch of centre with a boarded door on its left return. A catslide lean-to, built before the porch, adjoins it on the left and abuts a slightly projecting gabled cross-wing to the right. This cross-wing, which appears to have originally been a parlour, was substantially altered in the 19th century when it was converted into a stable and cart-house block. Triple-stepped diagonal buttresses have been added to the northwest, southwest, and southeast corners, with further stepped buttresses to the centre of the long southwest side and the southeast gable. A large Tudor-arched opening with pronounced stone voussoirs and a label has been created in the right bay of the southwest side, featuring stable and part corrugated iron doors. Above this, there are two wide gabled dormers, seemingly original, with boarded shutters to unglazed windows. A part-glazed modern window is located on the ground floor to the left, and a further shuttered window is positioned in the northwest gable, with a boarded entrance below. The southeast gable end features tall blind slit-windows. A decorative weathervane sits atop the northwest gable apex.
Adjacent to the main house on the left is a single-storey rubble lean-to with a hipped slate roof and a boarded door to the front. Behind the house, to the southeast, is a newer farmhouse dating from approximately 1838. It has two storeys and octagonal end chimneys similar to those of the original farmhouse. The off-centre entrance is on the northeast-facing side with a modern door. There is a six-pane sash window to the right and four-pane sashes to the left, and on the first floor as well, all dating from the 19th century. Above the door is a five-pane Y-tracery arched window. Further four-pane sashes are present on the rear, plus a tall Y-tracery stair-light. Two further Y-tracery windows are found on the southeast gable, accompanied by decorative bargeboards.
Inside the main block, there is a large fireplace, and the cross-wing retains chamfered ceiling beams to the left section. The 19th-century wing was reportedly said to have had the date 1888 inscribed above a fireplace (now obscured), although 1838 is considered the more likely date.
Local climate
Coed Mawr Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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