Cow house at Dolau Uchaf is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 January 2021. Cow house.
Cow house at Dolau Uchaf
- WRENN ID
- solemn-barrel-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 January 2021
- Type
- Cow house
- Address
- Cow house at Dolau Uchaf, Rhydcymerau, Llanybydder
- OS grid reference
- SN 568 390
- Coordinates
- 52.0314, -4.08864
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cow house at Dolau Uchaf is a structure built from limewashed rubble stone and topped with a slate roof. It features three boarded doors with timber lintels. On the right side, there is a small lean-to made of corrugated iron, which was used for churn storage in the mid-20th century. The right gable end has a boarded loft loading door. Additionally, there is a continuous rear outshut with a roof that is partly made of corrugated plastic and partly slate.
Inside, the cow house has a five-bay collar-beam roof. The doorways lead to a central feed passage and outer muck passages. Original stalls made of brick with wooden mangers are still present, although much of the brickwork has been covered with cement render. The outshut includes a calf cot.
Local climate
Cow house at Dolau Uchaf sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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