Former dairy at Tafarn Helyg is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 February 2005. Outbuilding.
Former dairy at Tafarn Helyg
- WRENN ID
- dim-lead-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 February 2005
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Former dairy at Tafarn Helyg, Gellilydan, Maentwrog, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 687 396
- Coordinates
- 52.93817, -3.95447
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former dairy at Tafarn Helyg is a single-storey outbuilding that was once used as a dairy or creamery for the nearby house or public house. It is constructed of rubble masonry, which includes some boulders, and features a slate roof with stone copings and a small rooflight on the northwest pitch. There is a stone gable stack with dripstones and capping on the northeast gable. The main front of the building has a boarded stable door on the right (southwest) and a 4-light casement window on the left. The interior was not inspected during the survey conducted in June and July 2003.
Local climate
Former dairy at Tafarn Helyg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Former Dairy to north-west of Ty Mawr
- 2 Long Range of outbuildings to SW of Farmhouse at Treginnis Isaf, including attached walled enclosure
- 3 Former Dairy House and Dairy, Immediately South West of Blashenwell Farm House
- 4 Outbuilding on S side of yard at Dan-y-graig
- 5 Govera Farmhouse, also known as Upper Govera Farmhouse
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings