Friar's Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 May 1949. Tower. 1 related planning application.
Friar's Terrace
- WRENN ID
- grey-cellar-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1949
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Friar's Terrace, 1 High Street, Bangor, LL57 1YY
- OS grid reference
- SH 586 723
- Coordinates
- 53.22929, -4.11972
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Friar's Terrace is a late 18th-century, three-storey, seven-window ashlar-fronted building arranged as a terrace. The central three bays project forward. It has a hipped slate roof and cement-rendered chimney stacks. Small-pane sash windows are retained in No 3, and to the ground and first floors of No 1. The entrances have six-panel doors; the central entrance to No 2 is distinguished by a broad, segmental head, flanked by sidelights, and a seven-pane fanlight. Nos 1 and 3 have six-pane doors. Slate steps lead up to each entrance from boarded doors at road level.
Coursed stone forecourt walls enclose the front gardens, and iron trellised railings with finials mark the boundaries. Small-pane sash windows are visible at the rear of No 3, which is constructed of rubble stone.
Adjoining the terrace to the east was formerly the Bangor Turnpike House on the A5, built by Thomas Telford. The terrace’s railings are similar to those on the Menai Bridge, and may also be by Telford. No 1 was undergoing renovation at the time of inspection in October 1987.
Local climate
Friar's Terrace 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 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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