Main Entrance to Vaynol Park, including flanking approach walls, is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 August 1992. Entrance.
Main Entrance to Vaynol Park, including flanking approach walls,
- WRENN ID
- watchful-sentry-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1992
- Type
- Entrance
- Address
- Main Entrance to Vaynol Park, including flanking approach walls,, Bangor, Pentir
- OS grid reference
- SH 541 687
- Coordinates
- 53.19592, -4.18513
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The main entrance to Vaynol Park, including the flanking approach walls, is constructed of rock-faced snecked rubble with freestone dressings. This tripartite entrance features a free Indian style design, characterized by tapered pilasters and flat pyramidal finials, along with a bracketed cornice that is also repeated on the piers of the flanking walls. The main carriageway has a segmental arch, while the flanking pedestrian arches are semi-circular headed, all adorned with voussoirs. The entrance is completed with iron gates that feature scrollwork below the lock rail. Each side has additional 'bays', each containing a semi-circular headed opening with iron bars.
The boundary walls, which adjoin at right angles and gently step downwards, are designed similarly to the main entrance and create a pair of deep quadrants, each consisting of 8 bays and exhibiting more intricate detailing than the main wall. These walls have battered sections, a plinth, channelled freestone pilasters, coping, and finials. Each bay features distinctive voussoired straight-sided oval openings, also with iron bars. On the southwest side, near the main entrance, one bay is opened between piers, providing access to the drive leading to Wern-y-Gogas.
Local climate
Main Entrance to Vaynol Park, including flanking approach walls, 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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