Bryn Eisteddfod, incorporating Bryn Menai is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 1983. House.
Bryn Eisteddfod, incorporating Bryn Menai
- WRENN ID
- fallow-zinc-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bryn Eisteddfod, incorporating Bryn Menai, Caernarfon
- OS grid reference
- SH 482 624
- Coordinates
- 53.13775, -4.27069
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bryn Eisteddfod, which incorporates Bryn Menai, is a Regency style house built over two storeys with an attic. It features a symmetrical three-window front, with a scribed render finish and open arcaded barge boards topped with pendant finials. The slate roof is hipped at the rear and includes added skylights, with chimney stacks on both the right and left sides. The narrow central bay is recessed and has a replaced door beneath an added glazed canopy. Above this, there are French doors with overlights leading to a bracketed cast iron balcony. The outer bays are wider and gabled, containing small-pane tripartite sash windows on the lower storey, 2-light small-pane casements with overlights on the upper storey, and round-headed 2-light casements in the attic.
To the left side, there is a two-storey, two-window extension known as Bryn Menai, which has a hipped roof covered with replaced slates and a roughcast chimney stack on the left. The front of this extension features a doorway on the right with a replaced door and overlight, a 15-pane hornless sash window on the left, and 12-pane hornless sashes on the upper storey. Additionally, there is a doorway set back on the right side of the main house within an added wall.
The right side and rear of the house are pebble-dashed. The rear is composed of three bays, with a central gabled bay that projects forward and has a replaced door along with a stair light above. The right-hand bay contains a tripartite sash window similar to the front, while the left-hand bay has an enlarged window. In the upper storey, there are renewed 4-pane sash windows on both sides. The rear of Bryn Menai features a 4-pane sash window above a single-storey projection, along with an inserted small casement window in the upper left.
Inside, the house is symmetrically planned with a central vestibule that has an arch with panelled responds leading into the stair hall. The full-height open-well stair is notable for its wreathed handrail, plain balusters, and moulded tread ends. The rooms on both sides of the hall are adorned with classical chimneypieces, with the left room featuring fluted pilasters and a Greek key frieze, along with classical plaster ceiling cornices. The windows are fitted with panelled shutters, and the ground floor retains panelled doors, while the basement has boarded doors.
Local climate
Bryn Eisteddfod, incorporating Bryn Menai sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 6 transactions since 2000
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