Cow house in farmyard at 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 in farmyard at Trefaes

WRENN ID
seventh-gargoyle-crow
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 in farmyard at Trefaes, Rhoslefain, Llangelynin, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 584 057
Coordinates
52.63138, -4.09262
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The cow house at Trefaes is a structure made up of two ranges positioned end-to-end on a sloping site, separated by a full-height vertical joint. Both sections are built from roughly coursed field-stone. The upper section, which is the earlier of the two, features a higher corrugated metal roof behind coped gables. The lower section has a graded slate roof and includes a split boarded door on the left, with a central former doorway that has been infilled and now contains an inserted hopper window. The rear of this section has three ventilation strips, and the downhill gable end has a loft opening.

In the upper section, there is a boarded door on the right, along with a later projection made of rubble stone that has a single-pitch roof of corrugated metal. This projection is open at the front and supported by wooden posts, which are further reinforced by two brick piers.

Local climate

Cow house in farmyard at 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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