Fron is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 March 2000. Cottage.
Fron
- WRENN ID
- open-newel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 March 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fron, Abergwyngregyn, Llanfairfechan, Aber, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 656 725
- Coordinates
- 53.23323, -4.01425
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Fron is a pair of single-storey estate cottages located in Abergwyngregyn, designed in a simple 'vernacular revival' style. The cottages are symmetrically arranged, featuring a gabled wing that projects from the center of a long range. The exterior is made of roughly coursed rubblestone with buttered pointing on the sides and rear, and snecked rubblestone with large slate-stone lintels on the front. The cottages have a slate roof with overhanging verges and carved purlin ends on the long range, as well as an ornamental arch-braced collar truss in the center gable.
The front facade is symmetrical with a layout of 1:2:1 bays, where the gable includes 2-light windows and the long range has 3-light windows. The entrances to the long range are positioned at an angle with the center gable. There are prominent brownish brick integral end stacks with paired diagonal shafts on the long range and clustered diagonal shafts on the ridge of the gabled wing, all featuring chamfered stone bases and stepped capping.
Fron has 20th-century replacement windows, a half-glazed door set within a flat-roofed entrance porch, and a 20th-century flat-roofed garage attached to the left gable end. There is also a flat-roofed extension at the rear. The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Fron sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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