Cow house at Pen-y-Graig Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 December 2020. Cow house.

Cow house at Pen-y-Graig Farm

WRENN ID
final-keep-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 December 2020
Type
Cow house
Address
Cow house at Pen-y-Graig Farm, Pentre-Celyn, Ruthin, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
OS grid reference
SJ 131 526
Coordinates
53.0641, -3.29771
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The cow house at Pen-y-Graig Farm is a lofted structure built from locally quarried limestone rubble and topped with a slate roof. It features openings with timber lintels. On the eastern side facing the yard, there are three full-height doors, with metal-framed windows fitted into the original openings between them. The southern gable end has a stub wall from a section that was removed, and it includes a metal-framed window in an original opening. The northern gable end has a similar loft window set in a brick surround.

At the rear, there is a parallel range constructed of brick with concrete dressings, covered by a roof made of corrugated asbestos-cement sheets. The western wall contains three full-height doorways with split boarded doors, while the southern gable end features a boarded door, and both gable ends have loft windows. Inside the original range, there is a single truss with a sawn tie beam and raking struts.

Local climate

Cow house at Pen-y-Graig Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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