Friar's Terrace is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 May 1949. Terrace house.
Friar's Terrace
- WRENN ID
- woven-quoin-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1949
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- Friar's Terrace, 2 High Street, Bangor
- OS grid reference
- SH 585 723
- Coordinates
- 53.22927, -4.11986
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Friar's Terrace is a three-storey building featuring a seven-window ashlar front, with the central three bays projecting forward. It has a hipped slate roof and cement render chimney stacks. The small pane sash windows are preserved at No 3 and on the ground and first floors of No 1. Each entrance has a six-panel door, with No 2 having a broad segmental headed main entrance flanked by sidelights and a seven-pane fanlight, while Nos 1 and 3 have six-pane doors. Slate steps lead up to each entrance from boarded doors at road level.
The front gardens are enclosed by coursed stone forecourt walls and iron trellised railings with finials. The rear of No 3 features small pane sash windows set in rubble.
To the east, there was formerly the Bangor Turnpike House on the A5, which is believed to have been built by Thomas Telford. The terrace has similar railings to those that were on the Menai Bridge, suggesting it may also be by Telford.
At the time of inspection in October 1987, No 1 was undergoing renovation.
Local climate
Friar's 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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