Cowhouse at Maes y Meillion is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 December 2004. Cowhouse.
Cowhouse at Maes y Meillion
- WRENN ID
- cold-gable-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 December 2004
- Type
- Cowhouse
- Address
- Cowhouse at Maes y Meillion, Eisingrug, Talsarnau, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 615 346
- Coordinates
- 52.8918, -4.05888
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cowhouse at Maes y Meillion is a long, single-storey structure built with well-coursed and roughly dressed boulders, featuring longer slabs as quoins and at the coped gables. It has a random slate roof that slopes down lower at the rear, a typical design for cowhouses in the Ardudwy region.
The east elevation includes outer doorways with boarded heck doors and 2x2-pane windows in the inner bays, one of which was originally a doorway. There is a small opening in the south gable and a pitching hole on the north side, along with a single doorway in the rear wall. Additionally, a block-work addition connects the cowhouse to a neighbouring barn.
Inside, the structure features pegged tie-beam trusses with collars.
Local climate
Cowhouse at Maes y Meillion sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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