Dolobran is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 November 1999. Farmhouse.
Dolobran
- WRENN ID
- quiet-pavement-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1999
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dolobran, Dinas Mawddwy, Machynlleth, Mawddwy, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 843 162
- Coordinates
- 52.73139, -3.71351
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Dolobran is a traditional farmhouse built with polygonal masonry featuring galetted joints, and the gable end of the barn is made of small layered shale. The building has slate roofs. The farmhouse follows a traditional living hall and inner room plan, oriented northwest to southeast, and includes a gable end stack. A narrow carthouse has been added to the southeast end, and there is a three-bay barn positioned at right angles to the front, which has been extended to the northeast and features various lean-to additions on the southwest side.
The entrance to the house is located against the gable end stack and is enclosed in a 20th-century lean-to porch. The living room and former inner room have small metal-framed windows, and there are two similar dormers that light the attics. The barn, positioned at right angles, has a renewed high barn door that breaks the eaves and two metal windows, with the lower window lighting a cowhouse at a lower level. A small dormer is situated above the barn doors. On the northwest side, two additional lean-to cowhouses have been added to the barn range, featuring stable doors and metal windows, along with a stable and storerooms, all covered by large connected lean-to slated roofs, including one dormer with a cat-slide roof.
The earliest dwelling, now functioning as a farm building, is located at the northeast end of the extended barn range and has a gable end stack. There are further lean-to domestic extensions at the rear of the house, which include an end entry and small roof lights. Inside, there is a large inglenook fireplace at the southeast end of the early living room, along with a chamfered spine beam. The roof of the house consists of three bays, with two trusses that are said to be of open upper cruck form, featuring elbowed blades. The earliest dwelling at the rear has a wide splayed gable end fireplace with a side oven. The barn attached to the south side consists of four bays with queen-post trusses, one of which is dated 1691, and shows evidence of wattle and daub partitioning, along with three tiers of purlins.
Local climate
Dolobran sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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