Braich-melyn is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 1999. House, farm building.
Braich-melyn
- WRENN ID
- watchful-forge-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1999
- Type
- House, farm building
- Address
- Braich-melyn, Dinas Mawddwy, Machynlleth, Mawddwy, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 843 165
- Coordinates
- 52.73412, -3.7148
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Braich-melyn is a house built of local rubble and whitewashed, with an adjoining farm building made of heavy stone and galetted, all under a continuous slate roof featuring a gable stack at the west end. The house has three bays, is one storey with an attic, and includes a boarded door in a heavy chamfered frame, along with two-light, two-paned timber windows with wooden lintels. The door and windows were renewed in the 1990s. The farm range has a three-bay roof over a cowhouse, with a lean-to extension at the front and a stable door leading into the cowhouse.
Inside, the house has a major living-kitchen at the west end, which features a large inglenook stack and a staircase at the side. There is a cross passage from the front door, and the eastern end originally contained two rooms: a buttery and a small parlour, separated by an original plank and muntin partition. The roof structure includes collar beam trusses that support two tiers of purlins.
The interior of the cowhouse also has a collar beam truss, with some reused timbers, supporting purlins. The roofing is made of thick slate, oak pegged in graded courses.
Local climate
Braich-melyn 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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