Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Ogwen Terrace
Bethesda, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 April 1997
- Locality
- Bethesda
- Town
- Bangor
- Community
- Bethesda
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.17932, -4.06064
- Cadw reference
- 18391
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in a terrace of 22 houses in centre of Bethesda, opposite War Memorial.
History
Terrace house of c1830-40, part of a an extensive curved terrace fronting onto the turnpike road to Holyhead. The terrace appears to have been built in connection with Telford's road to Holyhead, to an urban scale remarkable in what was primarily a slate-quarrying settlement.
Exterior
Colourwashed stucco with slate roof and large corniced slate stack to left, similar stack to right is roughcast, the stacks shared with adjoining houses. Three-storey, two-window range, hornless sashes, 9-pane to upper floor, 12-pane to first floor. Slate sills. Ground floor centre plate-glass tripartite sash, 4-panel door to right with traceried overlight.
Reason for designation
One of several of houses that retain original character in a fine late Georgian curved terrace of unusual scale.
Nearby in the register
- 10 Ogwen TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Ogwen TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- The War Memorial and surrounding wall.Commemorativeunder 1 mi
- 1 Ogwen TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.