Bodafon is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 February 1996. Terraced house.

Bodafon

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
21 February 1996
Type
Terraced house
Address
Bodafon, Rowen, Caerhun, Conwy
OS grid reference
SH 758 719
Coordinates
53.23046, -3.86176
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bodafon and Fronfa is an early 19th-century terrace consisting of two houses, each with two bays. The buildings are constructed of rubble and topped with a continuous slate roof featuring central and end chimneys. They have a plain cornice and later 19th-century ceramic pots. Each house has its entrance on the left, with original 16-pane recessed sash windows on the right and on the first floor, all evenly spaced, and projecting slate cills.

Bodafon, on the right, features a late 19th-century partially open wooden porch, which is closed on the west side, and has a part-glazed modern door. Fronfa, on the left, has a modern glazed porch that is not in keeping with the original style, topped with a slated lean-to roof, and has modern outer and inner doors, the latter being glazed.

The east gable end of Fronfa slopes downhill, resulting in a basement. It has a central entrance with double doors and flanking windows featuring modern 9-pane glazing. Above this, there is a blocked opening leading to the raised ground floor, flanked by modern windows, with one on the right having 9 panes. The first floor includes two 19th-century 16-pane sashes, similar to those below, and a 12-pane window at the gable apex.

At the rear of Fronfa, there is a low, storied contemporary coach house block. This has a coach/cart entrance on the east side with boarded doors and a 12-pane sash window above. There is external stepped access to the upper entrance at the south gable end.

Local climate

Bodafon sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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