Ysgwyfraith is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1992. House.
Ysgwyfraith
- WRENN ID
- far-bastion-hawthorn
- 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
- Ysgwyfraith, Penmachno Mill, Bro Machno, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 800 516
- Coordinates
- 53.04865, -3.79145
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ysgwyfraith is a one and a half storey house with three windows, built from local random rubble, although the eastern side features higher quality dressed stone, which was the former front. It has a slate roof and tall stone chimneys, with the right chimney being more massive. The front wall is adorned with three gabled dormers that have late 19th century sash windows and bargeboards. The entrance door is located beneath a shallow gabled porch made of rendered brick. To the left of the porch are two windows, and to the right is one window, all of which are 2-light casements set beneath deep stone lintels. There is a lean-to addition on the left side of the house.
At the rear, there is a single-storey outshot on the left, which was formerly a dairy, and it includes a former wheel pit to the south. Above this outshot is a small modern flat-topped dormer. The eastern elevation features a doorway with a segmental head made of thin voussoirs and a drip mould above it. To the right of the door is a datestone marked 'RWM 1757'. Additionally, to the right of the doorway, there are two square windows with simple stone lintels that now have modern casement glazing.
Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace at the south end of the house, which is under a deep cambered wooden lintel. It is said that there is another fireplace at the north end, but it is concealed due to modernisation.
Local climate
Ysgwyfraith 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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