Gwanas Farmhouse including attached Byre Range is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 May 1995. Farmhouse.

Gwanas Farmhouse including attached Byre Range

WRENN ID
frozen-chimney-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 May 1995
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Gwanas Farmhouse including attached Byre Range, Brithdir and Llanfachreth, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 769 169
Coordinates
52.73597, -3.82333
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gwanas Farmhouse, built in the 19th century, is a large two-storey building made of rubble with a medium-pitched slate roof featuring deep verges and overhanging eaves. It has fine panelled end chimneys with moulded upper sections, string-courses, and weather-coursing. The front is symmetrical with three bays and a gabled central entrance bay, adorned with later 19th-century decorative bargeboards and a wooden spear-finial. Inside the gable, there is a framed slate lozenge displaying the date 1838 in raised figures, and below this is a moulded eaves band. The windows are plain, recessed later 19th-century sash windows with slate lintels, incised voussoirs, and raised keystones. The entrance features a contemporary boarded door with a diamond lattice fanlight, and there are additional sash windows at the rear, including an original horned sash, with the southern gable end hung with slate.

The porch is constructed from large rough-dressed stone blocks and has a deep chamfered plinth. It features slit-lights on the flanking walls that are splayed inwardly with Tudor-arched heads. The later 19th-century roof is slated and has bargeboards and a finial similar to those on the house. The entrance arch is supported by a segmental timber tie-beam with struts.

Adjoining the farmhouse to the northeast is an earlier range that is one-and-a-half piles in construction, matching the farmhouse. The northern part is the oldest and has an end chimney to the west, indicating it once served a domestic purpose before being converted into a stable/byre range, with openings dating from the 19th century. The entrance is located on the northern side, flanked by modern windows, with an additional window above and a boarded door to the right. There is a modern rubble outshut to the far right and a 19th-century external stepped access leading to the upper entrance at the eastern gable. The rear pile has modern entrances and windows.

Local climate

Gwanas Farmhouse including attached Byre Range sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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