Agricultural Range at Cefn Castell is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 July 1998. Agricultural range.
Agricultural Range at Cefn Castell
- WRENN ID
- silent-pillar-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1998
- Type
- Agricultural range
- Address
- Agricultural Range at Cefn Castell, Betws Yn Rhos
- OS grid reference
- SH 903 756
- Coordinates
- 53.26622, -3.64574
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The agricultural range at Cefn Castell is an L-shaped structure built of whitened rubble with old slate roofs. It features a main barn section and an additional cart-house block that is positioned at right angles to the barn. The barn section has its gable facing the approach to the farm, showcasing a tall boarded loading bay with a glazed, three-pane upper section, and flanking ventilation slits arranged in two tiers. The long return of the L shape includes a boarded stable door set in a pegged frame on the left, with an exposed timber lintel above. To the right, there is a vertical window with paired vents in two tiers, along with a 20th-century lean-to extension on the left rear gable end.
The cart-house section is attached to the front gable on the right side and stands two storeys high. It features two large segmentally-arched cart bays with rough-dressed voussoirs. Above these bays, there is a boarded window on the left and a boarded loading bay on the right. The southwest gable has a cambered upper entrance in the centre, which includes a boarded door and voussoirs similar to those on the cart bays. A straight stone-parapetted flight of steps leads up to this entrance, flanked by rubble-walled pig sties that are accessible from the front.
The interior was not inspected during the survey.
Local climate
Agricultural Range at Cefn Castell sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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