Corn Drying House at Felin Sylfaen is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1995. Semi-detached houses.

Corn Drying House at Felin Sylfaen

WRENN ID
hollow-cinder-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1995
Type
Semi-detached houses
Address
Corn Drying House at Felin Sylfaen, Barmouth, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 640 186
Coordinates
52.74836, -4.01581
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Corn Drying House at Felin Sylfaen is an early 18th-century vernacular structure built from rubble, featuring four bays and massive boulder foundations that are partly constructed on rock. The building has rubble parapet gables and a corrugated iron roof. On the east side, there is an entrance to the left with a recessed boarded door. Additionally, there is another entrance on the north gable end, which has an original pegged wooden doorcase with a lintel inscribed 'M O 1729' and a boarded door. Ventilation slits are present on both gable ends.

Local climate

Corn Drying House at Felin Sylfaen sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 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 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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