Yr Hen Dafarn is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 April 2001. House. 1 related planning application.
Yr Hen Dafarn
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-pillar-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 April 2001
- Type
- House
- Address
- Yr Hen Dafarn, Trelogan, Holywell, Llanasa, CH8 9BD
- OS grid reference
- SJ 117 802
- Coordinates
- 53.31149, -3.32545
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Yr Hen Dafarn, formerly Gorse Cottage, is a two-story, double-fronted house built of rubble stone with larger quoins, and has a slate roof with stone end stacks. The windows have wedge lintels in the lower story and are set beneath the eaves in the upper story. The central doorway is half-glazed. The windows are small-pane, hornless sashes. The right-hand gable end has a boarded doorway leading to a cellar, located towards the left, and a two-light casement window in the lower story, set under a wooden lintel. Further to the right are two inserted windows. The rear elevation is rendered with replaced windows, a gabled porch, and a flat-roofed projection on the right side. This building exhibits group value. Not inspected.
Local climate
Yr Hen Dafarn 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 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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