Courtyard Ranges of Agricultural Buildings at Bryn-y-Neuadd Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 1992. Agricultural building.
Courtyard Ranges of Agricultural Buildings at Bryn-y-Neuadd Farm
- WRENN ID
- distant-lime-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1992
- Type
- Agricultural building
- Address
- Courtyard Ranges of Agricultural Buildings at Bryn-y-Neuadd Farm, Llanfairfechan
- OS grid reference
- SH 679 748
- Coordinates
- 53.25398, -3.98027
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The courtyard ranges of agricultural buildings at Bryn-y-Neuadd Farm date from the 18th and 19th centuries and represent a substantial group of farm buildings complementing the main house and offices. To the right of the house is a range of cart and implement sheds with a slate roof, dark local rubble construction, and pale freestone dressings. It is a single-storey building comprising seven bays, with the central bay set slightly forward and topped with a pinnacled gable. The other bays are buttressed and feature freestone panels, each with three implied vertical ventilator slits. The front side, facing the courtyard to the north, has square openings with wooden lintels supported by squared stone piers. Two bays at the west end have double wooden doors and a smaller window to the right; a bay at the east end retains a decorative wooden door. Internal features include rubble dividing walls and cobbled or brick floors.
To the west is a single-storey agricultural range, with a further small parallel building at the southeast corner. The building is constructed of dark local rubble with heavy, pale grey hammer-dressed lintels and sills, and a slate roof partially replaced with corrugated sheeting. There is a stone chimney at the ridge. It features small-pane windows and boarded doors; internally, it has a standard 19th-century roof with king post trusses and diagonal struts. At the north end is a large cow house with a rear feeding passage, metal troughs, stall partitions, and a dung channel.
The north range comprises a two-storey feed processing and workshop complex. The central block is slightly higher, with a chimney to the west, and features three bays, although the upper floor is obscured by a bridge to a hammel block. The flanking block to the east has three bays, with a central door (also serving as a loading door above) flanked by square windows. It has heavy lintels and sills. Rear windows on the central block's upper level incorporate ventilation grilles. The end blocks each have two bays. To the west, a single-storey range has roof ventilators.
The west block provides animal accommodation and equipment storage rooms, constructed in a matching style and materials to the east block. Centrally located within the courtyard is the hammel block, featuring a covered range aligned north-south. The building is constructed of local rubble with a pitched slate roof and has four bays on each side, each with a broad opening supported by wooden lintels. Yards are surrounded by rubble walls with heavy copings and some boulders in the foundations. In the south gable end are stairs leading to a first-floor doorway for access to a feed store above. The ground floor has flanking doors leading to the hammel, and a central door leading to a cobbled feeding passage with camber-headed feed hatches featuring wooden flaps on either side. The upper storey connects with the north block via a bridge supported on I-beams.
Local climate
Courtyard Ranges of Agricultural Buildings at Bryn-y-Neuadd Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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