Cwm Hesgyn is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2001. House.
Cwm Hesgyn
- WRENN ID
- empty-ember-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2001
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cwm Hesgyn, Llanfor, Bala, Llandderfel, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 882 418
- Coordinates
- 52.96259, -3.66587
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Cwm Hesgyn is a long single-storey house with an attached cowhouse, built from local rubble with boulder foundations and situated on a downhill slope. The house consists of two sections, with the right section stepped down and a byre section adjoining the lower left end. The upper section has a slated roof, while the two lower sections are covered with corrugated iron; all parts except the cowhouse are whitened.
The entrance, located off-centre to the left, is a former window that now features a small pane glazed door. To the right of this entrance is a near-centre window, which was previously the main entrance. There are two additional windows at the far left and right, all of which are modern wooden casement types. A rubble end chimney is located on the right side, complete with weathercoursing.
The stepped-down section on the right has an entrance to the left, accessed by rough slate steps leading up to a short flagged terrace. To the right of this entrance are two late 19th century or early 20th century six-pane part-casement windows. The cowhouse features a single entrance to the left, and at the lower gable end, there is a lean-to structure known as Ty Bach. The upper gable end has a loft opening with a modern four-pane window, and there are additional windows on the rear of each section of the house, with the upper part having a ground-level window that features an expressed timber lintel.
The interior has been largely modernised but retains evidence of a former crog loft in the upper section and a stepped internal stack in the lower section. The building features simple pegged collar and tie-beam trusses, with a single tie-beam truss in the cowhouse.
Local climate
Cwm Hesgyn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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