Bryntirion is a Grade II* listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 March 1966. House.

Bryntirion

WRENN ID
young-quoin-frost
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
3 March 1966
Type
House
Address
Bryntirion, Vaynol Park, Bangor, Pentir
OS grid reference
SH 531 686
Coordinates
53.19462, -4.19984
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bryntirion is a Grade II* listed building constructed of coursed rubble with slate roofs. It is primarily two storeys with an attic, featuring a main front that consists of four window bays. To the north, there is a lower structure that was formerly used for service accommodation and does not have an attic. A rubble screen wall separates Bryntirion from Bryntirion Bach.

The main front, facing east, is composed of two sections, with the more northerly part dating from an early 19th-century remodelling and built of slightly different stone. It has twelve-paned sash windows and an off-centre portico with a panelled surround, a porch supported by replaced Ionic columns, and half-glazed doors. The attic features four gabled dormer windows with 12-pane sashes set in a tall hipped roof. The south front is rendered and lined, showcasing 2-pane 19th-century sash windows on either side of a projecting, canted four-storey central bay, which also has four-pane sash windows. Uniquely, gabled dormers with similar windows are present on all three faces of this central bay, and similar gabled dormers illuminate the attic of each side bay. At the southern end, there is a rustic archway primarily constructed of drystone. The building is topped with two tall chimney stacks that have multiple flues.

Inside, the main rooms are accessed from a long entrance hall that features segmental arches, a deeply moulded cornice, and architraves surrounding the six-panelled doors. The windows have panelled shutters. An early 18th-century dog-leg staircase with a shaped handrail and turned balusters is located off the corridor. One of the rooms includes a Dinorwic slate chimneypiece. The house is reported to retain a strongroom for the estate deeds, and it has a stone-flagged and brick-vaulted cellar.

Local climate

Bryntirion sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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