Cowshed at Gelli is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 November 1996. Cowshed.

Cowshed at Gelli

WRENN ID
quiet-rubblework-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 November 1996
Type
Cowshed
Address
Cowshed at Gelli, Trefilan, Lampeter, Nantcwnlle
OS grid reference
SN 546 573
Coordinates
52.19521, -4.12832
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The cowshed at Gelli is a 19th-century building constructed from whitewashed rubble stone with a slate roof, featuring a single long range that slopes down from north to south. The west side includes, from left to right, a door, a ventilation loop, two windows, and a centrally located door. To the right, there is one window in a blocked door. The building has timber lintels throughout. The north end features one window in a former loading door, while the south end is an addition with two large coach entries in the gable end, which have cambered timber lintels and squared stone centre and angle piers. There is a small lean-to on the east side, which has a south door with stone voussoirs, along with a blocked door and another door in the main east wall.

Inside, the cowshed has three heavy oak roof trusses with scarfed feet and curved pegged collars, while other areas feature 19th-century pine collar trusses. There are two oak beams and the stubs of a third. In the coach-house area, there is a dividing stone wall, and the left side of the coach-house has a three-sided plaster ceiling, which is an unusual feature.

Local climate

Cowshed at Gelli sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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