Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Menai
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1988
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22816, -4.13505
- Cadw reference
- 4080
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
Forward at the W end of Menai View Terrace on the corner with Victoria Terrace.
History
Mid C19 (shown on Captain Johnson’s 1854 map); probably contemporary with the terrace at Nos 7 to 12 (consec) said to have been built in 1853.
Exterior
Three-storey 3-bay stucco front with quoins and 2-storey, 2-window extension (shown on 1883 photograph) forward to left with stringcourse. Slate roof, hipped to left end and with brick and cement rendered chimney stacks. Sash windows with marginal glazing bars to second floor; 2-storey bay below (splayed to right) with small pane casement glazing. Similar casement window over central half glazed porch with verandah which has Gothic inspired iron decoration and is carried on cast iron columns with foliage capitals. Modern windows to extension with chamfered left corner and one sash window and 6-panel door to Victoria Street.
Pebbledash gable end of main house with various sash, across frame and modern windows. Three-window cross range extends beyond that with small pane sash windows.
Reason for designation
Group value with the rest of Menai View Terrace.
Nearby in the register
- Menai View TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Menai View TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Menai View TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Menai Vaults P.H.Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.