Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 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
- 53.22688, -4.13254
- Cadw reference
- 4013
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 into the slope towards the upper end of the hill; detached from Nos 4 and 5. Rubble forecourt walls with iron railings to front gardens.
History
Pair of mid C19 (shown on Capital Johnson’s 1854 map)
Exterior
2-storey, 2-window rendered fronts with similar classical detail. Slate roof and cement rendered end chimney stacks. End pilasters with acanthus capitals rising to egg and dart cornice and deep entablature with stucco wreaths. Splayed bay windows to either end flanking paired entrances under pedimented architrave; twin-arched-panelled door retained to No 7. Sash windows, altered to No 6 and with marginal glazing bars to No 7. Part slate hung left hand side. Modern connection to No 5 over the side passage.
Reason for designation
Group value with neighbouring terraces on Glanrafon Hill.
Nearby in the register
- 7 Fron Dirion TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Fron Dirion TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Eldon TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Fron Dirion TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.