Rhyd-Wen Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 November 1994. House. 1 related planning application.

Rhyd-Wen Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ragged-tracery-torch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
10 November 1994
Type
House
Address
Rhyd-Wen Farmhouse, Rhyl, LL18 4DY
OS grid reference
SJ 032 813
Coordinates
53.3205, -3.45346
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rhyd-Wen Farmhouse, likely built as a farmhouse or possibly a pair of dwellings with an attached cottage that was originally an outbuilding, dates primarily to the 1630s and 1640s, with doorways marked as 1635 and 1641. The structure is built of roughly coursed and squared stone with a slate roof, featuring a brick end wall and axial stacks. The farmhouse is a low two-storey building, originally a long range comprising a three-unit house (or a two-unit and a single-unit house), to which a lower single-bay outbuilding was added. This outbuilding was later converted into a separate cottage, and the end unit of the farmhouse was divided off to become part of the cottage. The house faces south. A modern porch features a shallow 4-centred arch with a lintel bearing the date and initials "K over I.H." A 20-pane sash window is located to the left of the porch doorway, with a 12-pane sash to its right, and three similar windows above. To the left, a doorway—also marked with initials "K over I.H." and the date 1635—is now a 12-pane sash window. A further 16-pane sash window is followed by a 12-pane sash window above. This end unit appears to have originally been part of the main house but is now separated. The windows are framed by moulded architraves, and the remains of stone mullions, cut through when the sashes were inserted, are visible in the sills and lintels of most windows. A single-unit extension to the right was probably added in the 19th century as a single-storey service room and raised in height around 1950. A lower outbuilding to the left was likely added to the main range in the 18th century.

Inside, the farmhouse retains some original structural features, including paired axial beams with geometrical chamfer stops in the east room, and an inglenook fireplace—modified—and an axial beam with a stepped chamfer stop in the west room.

Local climate

Rhyd-Wen Farmhouse 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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