Cow house at Croff-y-Cyff is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 September 2002. Cow shed.
Cow house at Croff-y-Cyff
- WRENN ID
- high-quartz-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 September 2002
- Type
- Cow shed
- Address
- Cow house at Croff-y-Cyff, Ffaldybrenin, Llanycrwys
- OS grid reference
- SN 622 444
- Coordinates
- 52.08098, -4.01155
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The cow house at Croff-y-Cyff is a building constructed of rubble stone with brick dressings and quoins, topped with a slate roof. The front features a central boarded door with a segmental arch above it. To the left of this door is a small-pane window, followed by another boarded door. At the downhill end of the building, there is a small brick lean-to that has been added. The right (uphill) gable end includes a boarded loft door. The rear of the cow house has a single central boarded door, and a kennel has been added to the right-hand, downhill end.
Local climate
Cow house at Croff-y-Cyff sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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