Y Felin is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 August 2001. Former factory.

Y Felin

WRENN ID
tall-granite-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 August 2001
Type
Former factory
Address
Y Felin, Drefach Felindre, Llandysul, Llangeler
OS grid reference
SN 338 378
Coordinates
52.014, -4.42239
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Y Felin is a former woollen factory from the late 19th century, constructed from coursed slate rubble with cambered yellow brick heads above the openings and a pitched slated roof. The west elevation features three storeys and five irregular bays. The upper storey has small openings, likely 9-pane windows, which are obscured by corrugated sheets. These windows have slate sills and heads at the eaves, with the window in bay 2 offset to the left, while the others are evenly spaced. The first floor includes a boarded timber door in the first bay, accessed by a timber stair that rises from the right. The remaining openings, also partly obscured by corrugated sheets, appear to be 12-pane casements with 3-pane swivelling uppers. On the ground floor, there are a pair of wide timber loading doors on cast iron runners in bay 2, along with similar casements with swivelling uppers in bays 3 to 5. The roof has a brick stack on the left gable end and five small Velux windows—two pairs in the centre and right, and one set on the left. The right wall features a 9-pane casement with a swivelling upper 3-light on the first floor, while the ground floor is obscured by a modern concrete block and galvanised sheet lean-to. The left gable has a small opening on the second storey with a cambered yellow brick head, likely a former 9-pane casement.

Attached to the left is a low, single-storey range built in similar rubble construction. This range has five bays, with paired boarded timber doors on the left beneath a large timber lintel. The remaining bays contain late 20th-century timber 2-pane lights with narrow, swivelling uppers. Openings have timber lintels and slate sills, and the roof is pitched and slated, although the former end stack has been removed.

The building has not been inspected recently and appears to be derelict, although the lower range to the left was partially converted for residential use around 1980, but this work remains uncompleted.

Local climate

Y Felin sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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