Hendre-uchaf is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 August 1997. House.

Hendre-uchaf

WRENN ID
tenth-sandstone-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 August 1997
Type
House
Address
Hendre-uchaf, Abergele
OS grid reference
SH 957 762
Coordinates
53.27321, -3.56472
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Hendre-uchaf is a two-storey building with painted stonework and slate roofs, featuring stone stacks. The main range has its entrance at the eastern end, which includes an arched-headed stone opening with a later timber door that has glazed panels, along with a datestone above. Timber sash windows are present throughout. The original service range is lower and positioned at right angles to the main range, featuring timber casement windows and a gable stack, with a projecting oven on the western side and diamond leaded glazing. This range is extended by low outbuildings and a lean-to service room at the left end. An added extension to the main range is narrower than the original.

Although the interior was not accessible during the resurvey, it is noted to retain a significant amount of sub-medieval detail. There are very fine post and panel partitions that separate the two rooms on each floor, with the main posts incised with a guilloche pattern, reminiscent of Plas Mawr in Conwy. Two doorways connect the spaces. The ceilings feature broad chamfered beams and counterchanged joists, all with concave stops and fillets. A large lateral gable fireplace is located on the eastern wall of the hall, and the hall fire beam bears an inscription "ANNO...", which may have been reused and is damaged on the soffit due to a pointed profile being cut. A staircase, likely from the 18th century, may have replaced the original one located to the left of the entry. The wing at right angles was likely added as an integral kitchen, and there is a 19th-century scullery extension added to the south.

Local climate

Hendre-uchaf sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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