Boundary wall, screen and gateway, SW side of Llanrug-Llanberis 'Mountain' Road at Bryn Bras Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 August 1999. Boundary wall and gateway.
Boundary wall, screen and gateway, SW side of Llanrug-Llanberis 'Mountain' Road at Bryn Bras Castle
- WRENN ID
- upper-thatch-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1999
- Type
- Boundary wall and gateway
- Address
- Boundary wall, screen and gateway, SW side of Llanrug-Llanberis 'Mountain' Road at Bryn Bras Castle, Bwlch
- OS grid reference
- SH 544 624
- Coordinates
- 53.1395, -4.17808
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The boundary wall, screen, and gateway are located on the southwest side of Llanrug-Llanberis 'Mountain' Road at Bryn Bras Castle. The wall is constructed from roughly coursed rubblestone with stone-on-edge coping, while the screen and turreted gateway feature more regularly coursed stonework. The wall varies in height, being lowest between the two lodges and highest near Fernlea. On the northwest side of Fernlea, it serves as a decorative screen with embattled square corner turrets that have blind rectangular 'arrow' slits, along with two round-headed arches that contain boarded doors in the wall. This screen leads to a gateway that is set back from the road, which provides access to the former stables and outbuildings, now known as Nos. 1-3 The Turrets. The gateway consists of two embattled circular turrets and iron gates topped with an overthrow that incorporates a decorative lantern made by Brunswick Ironworks in Caernarfon, with the letter 'A' at each end. From the right turret, the wall curves towards the road and continues under the archway that links the two parts of Bryn Bras Castle.
Local climate
Boundary wall, screen and gateway, SW side of Llanrug-Llanberis 'Mountain' Road at Bryn Bras Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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