Privy at Benar is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1992. Privy.
Privy at Benar
- WRENN ID
- waning-lintel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1992
- Type
- Privy
- Address
- Privy at Benar, Bro Machno, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 794 517
- Coordinates
- 53.04936, -3.8002
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The privy at Benar is a 19th-century structure built from local flat rubble and topped with a thick slate roof. It features centrally-placed double wooden doors and gable ends on the northwest and southeast sides. The southeast gable has a small square window, while the northwest gable has a blocked square window. The building is set into a slope that drops steeply down to a stream at the rear, which flows through square-headed openings in the lower part of the gable walls. Inside, there is a two-seater latrine with wooden seats that overhang the stream, allowing waste to be carried away.
Local climate
Privy at Benar 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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