Cowhouse at Maes-y-garnedd is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 October 2003. Agricultural building.
Cowhouse at Maes-y-garnedd
- WRENN ID
- twisted-chancel-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 October 2003
- Type
- Agricultural building
- Address
- Cowhouse at Maes-y-garnedd, Cwm Nantcol, Llanbedr, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 641 269
- Coordinates
- 52.82261, -4.01683
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cowhouse at Maes-y-garnedd is a long agricultural building constructed from drystone boulders, featuring a plinth course at the northwest gable entrance. It has a roof made of small pegged slates, which is now heavily grouted, and stone gable copings. There is a doorway in the northwest gable and a window positioned towards the right at the southeast end of the southwest gable, along with a ventilation slit to the right.
Inside, the barn has an exposed roof with four bays and paired purlins. The truss nearest to the entrance includes ogee queen posts above the tie beam, although the right-hand blade is currently missing. The other two trusses are pegged and collared, also featuring tie beams.
Local climate
Cowhouse at Maes-y-garnedd sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% 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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