Cefn Castell is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 July 1998. Farmhouse.

Cefn Castell

WRENN ID
deep-keep-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 July 1998
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Cefn Castell, Abergele, Betws Yn Rhos
OS grid reference
SH 903 755
Coordinates
53.26584, -3.64619
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Cefn Castell is a double-pile farmhouse that features a primary storeyed end chimney range at the rear and a late Regency range at the front. The building is constructed of rubble with slate roofs; the primary section is whitened while the front range is rendered. The older part has a large projecting end chimney on its northeast gable, which includes a gabled breast and a tall stack, along with squat rendered end chimneys on the front pile.

The main front of the house faces the garden and displays a symmetrical three-bay late Regency facade. There is a central entrance accessed by two segmental stone steps, featuring a round arch and an original six-panel door, where the upper four panels are raised and the lower two are blind. Above the door is a simple four-part segmental fanlight. The front also includes elegant 12-pane 19th-century sash windows with cambered heads.

On the rear, the primary pile has two Tudor-arched 19th-century Gothic windows on its northeast gable, one on each floor to the right of the chimney breast. These windows have recessed small-pane iron glazing with depressed ogee intersecting heads. There is an outshut to the rear on the right, which includes a 20th-century corrugated iron lean-to porch extending into the left angle, featuring a boarded inner door and 20th-century windows. The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.

Local climate

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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