Fron Arran is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 June 1990. House.
Fron Arran
- WRENN ID
- waiting-tracery-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fron Arran, Dolgellau, Gwynedd, LL40 1NW
- OS grid reference
- SH 728 174
- Coordinates
- 52.73958, -3.88515
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Fron Arran is a three-storey, three-window house with a two-storey service wing on the left. The building features coursed rubble masonry with ashlared pointing, while the left gable end is pebbledashed. It has a moderately pitched slate roof with an outshot to the rear, a cavetto eaves cornice, and later bargeboards. The stone stacks are also pebbledashed.
The façade includes three gablets above the second-floor windows, adorned with bargeboards and finials. The windows are 12-pane sash types with cavetto lintels, and there are 12-pane sashes on the first floor with stone lintels. The ground floor has canted bay windows with hipped slate roofs, narrow sidelights, and 12-pane front sashes. A flat hood supported by iron brackets covers the central doorway, which features a lattice-glazed rectangular fanlight above a door with four moulded fielded panels. The right gable end has twelve and fifteen-pane sash windows, a door leading to the outshot, and stone lintels. There is also a narrow 18-pane stair window at the rear.
The adjoining service wing has coursed rubble masonry and ashlared pointing, with a moderately pitched quarry slate roof, plain eaves, and close verges. It features a projecting chimney breast on the left end with slated offsets, a stone stack, and water tabling. The first floor has a 12-pane sash window set under the eaves, while the ground floor has a 16-pane sash window with a stone lintel.
Inside, there is a contemporary staircase with a scrolled newel and a handrail that sweeps up to the half landing. The interior also includes a buffet recess, six-panelled doors, moulded architraves, and some panelled shutters.
Local climate
Fron Arran sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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