1 Fron Dirion Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. A Late Georgian House. 1 related planning application.

1 Fron Dirion Terrace

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 August 1988
Type
House
Address
1 Fron Dirion Terrace, Glanrafon Hill, Bangor, LL57 2PY
OS grid reference
SH 577 721
Coordinates
53.22701, -4.13208
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

1 Fron Dirion Terrace is a late Georgian house with Greek Revival details, dating to the late 18th or early 19th century. It is a two-storey building with modern attic additions, originally designed with a two-window front. The front elevation is rendered and features giant order pilasters, adorned with heavily ornamented capitals and an entablature with floral dentils and stucco wreaths. The roof is slate-covered, with rendered chimney stacks; those at the ends have arched panels. Wide eaves are present at the left gable, while the right gable features an arched window and projecting pilasters at each end. Numbers 2 and 3 have bay windows. The bay window at Number 2 is squared and features ornamentation similar to the first-floor cill band; the bay window at Number 3 is a modern, splayed addition. A bay window may have been removed from Number 1. Cross-frame windows are located above the entrances. Number 2 has three-light windows, while Numbers 1 and 3 feature modern casement glazing.

Number 3 has a doorcase with a pedimented, stucco-decorated lintel and arched panelled door. The window above the door, and the window at Number 2, share similar enriched detail.

The rear of Numbers 1 and 2 has been modernised. An extension to Number 3 includes sash windows.

The interior of Number 2 retains arched niches and an elaborate deep cornice with interlace decoration in the first-floor drawing room. The cornice above the bay window was likely removed to accommodate a Victorian pelmet.

Local climate

1 Fron Dirion 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • 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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