Raised Terrace and Steps at SW end of Plas Brondanw Gardens including Exedra is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 May 1998. House. 1 related planning application.
Raised Terrace and Steps at SW end of Plas Brondanw Gardens including Exedra
- WRENN ID
- still-glass-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1998
- Type
- House
- Address
- Raised Terrace and Steps at SW end of Plas Brondanw Gardens including Exedra, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 615 422
- Coordinates
- 52.9593, -4.06224
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The raised terrace and steps at the southwest end of Plas Brondanw Gardens, which includes an exedra, features a slate-flagged surface and rubble revettment walls. There are flights of slate steps on both sides; the left (southeast) side has splayed steps with plain wrought-iron railings topped with urn finials, and low square piers that hold large cement-stone urns. In the center of the terrace, a horse-shoe shaped exedra projects to the southwest, with low rubble walls that step up slightly at the back, finished with reused ashlar coping stones and a 19th-century Gothic tracery panel featuring an attached sculpted head. The entrance piers are plain cylindrical and also topped with urns. The terrace slopes gently down to the right, where it leads to a returned flight of steps with railings facing the house and gardens, and a further simple flight of steps continues straight on to the northwest. At this end, there is a small classical male statue made of reconstituted stone on a terracotta plinth.
Local climate
Raised Terrace and Steps at SW end of Plas Brondanw Gardens including Exedra sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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