Cae Einion Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1995. Farmhouse.

Cae Einion Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sunken-wattle-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 February 1995
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Cae Einion Farmhouse, Kings, Arthog, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 679 161
Coordinates
52.72698, -3.95733
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cae Einion Farmhouse is a late 17th century farmhouse that stands one-and-a-half storeys high. It is constructed of rubble with a renewed slate roof and features a slate-coped gable parapet on the right side. The large end chimney on the left has capping and weather coursing. The central entrance leads to a nearly symmetrical front, which includes a pegged doorcase and a recessed, ribbed, and boarded door with a small glazed panel. On either side of the entrance are 19th century 12-pane recessed sash windows with slate cills. Above, there are three rubble gabled dormers fitted with 19th century 4-pane sashes. The rear pitch of the roof has six modern rooflights, and there are 19th century lean-to extensions on the right and at the rear.

Adjoining the farmhouse on the left is a quarter 19th century stable and cart-house block, built of rubble with an old slate roof. It features a boarded and ribbed door on the left and a cart entrance on the right, along with another boarded door and a 4-pane window at the rear. There is also a boarded loft door on the left gable end.

Inside, the entrance hall is flagged and has a rough beamed ceiling, with post-and-panel partition screens on either side forming a cross-passage to opposing entrances. The 19th century staircase is partly boarded, with plain newels and stick balusters. The left room, which was the former hall, has a huge inglenook fireplace with a chamfered inglebeam, although it is now blocked in. Both the hall and parlour spaces have beamed ceilings and early 19th century boarded doors. An original boarded oak partition screen can be found in the upper floor left room, while a timber-framed partition separates it from the right room. The upper cruck roof has three bays, with pegged collars and crude chamfered purlins.

Local climate

Cae Einion Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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