Former Farmhouse at Gwern Felin is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 February 1996. Farmhouse.

Former Farmhouse at Gwern Felin

WRENN ID
guardian-jade-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 February 1996
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Former Farmhouse at Gwern Felin, Tal-Y-Bont, Caerhun
OS grid reference
SH 765 686
Coordinates
53.20097, -3.85026
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former farmhouse at Gwern Felin dates from the 18th century but has earlier origins. Evidence at the rear indicates that it was originally a single-storey sub-Medieval dwelling, which was raised and modified in the second half of the 18th century. An attached byre and cart bay are located at the lower eastern end of the building. The structure is made of whitened rubble with boulder foundations and features an old slate roof, along with plain, squat end chimneys.

The entrance is near the center and has a recessed boarded door with a projecting dripstone above. There are window openings flanking the entrance on both floors, with the first-floor windows located under the eaves. A 19th-century four-pane casement window is present at the rear, where the boulder-built ground floor masonry is visible. At the southern rear, there is a single-storey pitched-roof extension that forms an 'L' shape with the main house. This extension is constructed similarly, featuring a boarded entrance and a 20th-century window on the eastern face.

To the east of the farmhouse, there is a stepped-down byre and cart bay, which is contemporary or nearly contemporary to the farmhouse. This structure has a large plain cart entrance on the left and a standard entrance on the right, which includes two boulder steps and a part-stable door.

Inside the main hall, there is a slate-flagged floor and a beamed ceiling with plain joists and beams. To the right of the entrance, there is a boarded draft screen with shelving at the rear. A large inglenook fireplace is located to the right, featuring a flat bressummer and a bracketed mantelshelf above. To the left in the hall, there is a plain 19th-century staircase with stick balusters and a boarded cupboard underneath. The parlour room also has a beamed ceiling, while the rear pantry extension has a flagged floor and slate shelving.

Local climate

Former Farmhouse at Gwern Felin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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