Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
1 Fron Dirion Terrace
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1988
- Locality
- Glanrafon Hill
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22700, -4.13207
- Cadw reference
- 4008
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
Set in the slop above Bryn Teg Terrace with front gardens, rubble forecourt walls and iron railings.
History
Built in 1851.
Exterior
Late Georgian with Greek Revival influences; 2-storey with modern attics. 2-window rendered fronts with giant order panelled pilasters; heavily ornamented capitals and entablature with floral dentils and stucco wreaths. Slate roof and rendered chimney stacks, those to ends have arched headed panels. Wide eaves to left gable end; arched headed window to right gable end and pilasters projected at both ends. Nos 2 and 3 have bay windows, that to No 2 is squared and has similar ornament to the 1st floor cill band; that to No 3 is modern and splayed. A bay window may have been removed from No 1. Cross frame windows over the entrances, otherwise 3-light windows to No 2 and modern casement glazing to Nos 1 and 3.
No 3 has doorcase with pedimented and stucco decorated lintel and arched panelled door; the window above, and that to No 2, has similarly enriched detail.
Modernised rear to Nos 1 and 2; extension to No 3 with sash windows.
Interior
The interior of No 2 retains arched ninches and an elaborate deep cornice with interlace decoration to the 1st floor Drawing room; cornice removed over bay window perhaps to take a Victorian pelmet.
Reason for designation
Group value with neighbouring terraces on Glanrafon Hill.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Fron Dirion TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Brynteg TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Fron Dirion TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Brynteg TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.