Gwyndy Uchaf is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 January 1995. Farmhouse.

Gwyndy Uchaf

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 January 1995
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Gwyndy Uchaf, Abergele, Betws Yn Rhos, LL22 8DB
OS grid reference
SH 889 732
Coordinates
53.24457, -3.66561
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Gwyndy Uchaf is a two-storey farmhouse with an irregular layout, located with its front facing a farmyard behind low rubble walls. The building is constructed from whitened rubble and features a slate roof with a gable parapet on the right side. The right-hand chimney is larger and has weathercoursing.

On the first floor, there is a central sash window, with a similar window to the right, both positioned at eaves level. The ground floor has a central doorway with a boarded door that includes a diamond-shaped window and an old latch. Above the entrance, a slate plaque commemorates the birth of Thomas Gwynn Jones. Flanking the doorway are large six-pane sash windows, all of which are modern replacements of 19th-century originals. To the left, at a right angle, is a single-storey block, possibly a former dairy, which has a boarded door and window.

The left gable end of the house features a first-floor sash window and an entrance doorway. There is a two-storey wing with a six-pane sash window on each floor and a stone chimney. Attached to this wing is a lower block that was likely a former brew-house, which has a square window and an end chimney with a semi-circular 'Popty-Mawr' oven projection. The rear of the house includes a single-storey outshut.

Inside, to the left of the entrance, part of an oak in-and-out partition is exposed. The room on the right contains a longitudinal stop-chamfered beam with stop-chamfered joists at the rear. The left room has a modern wooden staircase. The roof structure is ceiled, but parts of two curved principal rafters are visible on the landing, along with heavy purlins in some of the bedrooms.

Local climate

Gwyndy Uchaf sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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