Grand Lodge at Main Entrance to Vaynol Park is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 August 1992. Lodge.
Grand Lodge at Main Entrance to Vaynol Park
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1992
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Grand Lodge at Main Entrance to Vaynol Park, Bangor, Pentir
- OS grid reference
- SH 541 687
- Coordinates
- 53.19593, -4.18533
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Grand Lodge at the main entrance to Vaynol Park is a single-storey building constructed in the Tudor style, featuring rock-faced rubble and a slate roof. It has an 'L'-shaped plan, with the entrance positioned flush against the projecting gabled wing that faces the driveway. This wing includes a stone-roofed, canted bay window with stone mullions and transoms, which is decorated with a pilaster pinnacle above and crude Tudor panelling in the apron below. The bay window is flanked by large arrow-slit windows that have extended hoodmoulds, with one window shaped into a lozenge at its center. The entrance features an open Tudor arch and an asymmetrically stepped 'Dutch' parapet, which is situated between small crenellated towers. The gable displays a string course that suggests the presence of a parapet. Additionally, there is a pointed bay on the southeast side gable and a two-storey tower at the rear, complete with stone chimney stacks.
Local climate
Grand Lodge at Main Entrance to Vaynol Park 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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