Cow house S of Trefaes is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 June 2005. Cow house.
Cow house S of Trefaes
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-pier-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 June 2005
- Type
- Cow house
- Address
- Cow house S of Trefaes, Rhoslefain, Llangelynin, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 583 057
- Coordinates
- 52.63094, -4.094
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a former cow house located south of Trefaes, constructed from coursed field-stone and topped with a roof of graded slates featuring coped gables. On the eastern side, which faces the track leading to the house, there is a central split boarded door. To the right of this door is a ventilation strip, while to the left is an outshut with a catslide roof and a boarded door. The right gable end includes a boarded loading door. The rear of the building is built into a bank.
Inside, the roof consists of three bays supported by tie beams with raking struts.
Local climate
Cow house S of Trefaes sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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