Bron Menai is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 May 1949. House.

Bron Menai

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 May 1949
Type
House
Address
Bron Menai, 1 Menai Road, Bangor
OS grid reference
SH 582 731
Coordinates
53.23599, -4.12479
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bron Menai is a two-storey building with a scribed stucco exterior, featuring a front that has a layout of one plus two plus one windows. It has a hipped slate roof and wide bracket eaves, along with chimney stacks made of cement render and pebbledash. The central part of the building is symmetrical, with advanced and splayed bays on either side of a central entrance that leads to No 1. This entrance includes a four-pane door flanked by sidelights and a small pane fanlight. The building primarily features sash glazing, including a 12-pane window above the entrance and horned sash windows in the first-floor bays, with French windows below.

To the left, the plan steps back and has a similar entrance to No 1. The right side has been altered with a circa 1950 addition of a squared bay window, which includes a multipane metal frame window on the first floor and French windows below. There are small pane sash windows on the sides and rear of the building, and a half-glazed door at the back opens onto slate steps leading up to a large garden.

In front of the building, there is a terrace with a rubble revetment wall. The garage to the right was converted from former stables. The property is enclosed by spearhead cast-iron railings, with steps leading up at either end, complete with gates and gate piers.

Inside, the building retains some contemporary details. The entrance hall features a ceiling rose and angle niches flanking the doorway that leads to the stairwell, which has a turned handrail end. The drawing room includes a broad segmental arch with a seven-pane fanlight, which is an alteration of a former window following the extension.

Local climate

Bron Menai 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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