White Friars is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 1992. House.

White Friars

WRENN ID
lapsed-cobalt-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 April 1992
Type
House
Address
White Friars, Llanfairfechan
OS grid reference
SH 676 751
Coordinates
53.25691, -3.98518
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

White Friars is a two-storey detached house with a compact plan, built with a slate roof laid in graduated courses and a brick chimney. The walls are finished in rough-cast render painted white. The north-west elevation features a cross gable on the left, with the roof sweeping down over the ground floor. This roof slope includes a dormer with a raking roof. On the first floor, there is a three-light casement window with diamond-shaped panes. A porch with a panelled wooden door is covered by a roof of large grey slates, and to the right of the porch is a bay window. On the ground floor to the left, there are three small round-headed windows. The south-west gable end has a single three-light casement window on the first floor, and on the ground floor, there is one single-light and one three-light casement window. At the rear, there is a single-storey wing designed in the same style.

At the southeast end of the garden, there is a two-storey garage with staff accommodation above. This structure is also finished in rough-cast render painted off-white, with a roof covered in small slates. It features overhanging gables and two-light diapered casement windows in the gables, along with two garage doors below. The roof extends over eyebrow dormers on the east and west sides, which contain three-light diapered casement windows.

Local climate

White Friars 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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