Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Forecourt Walls
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
- 53.22828, -4.13476
- Cadw reference
- 4081
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
At the corner with Victoria Street, bordering the front garden.
History
Mid C19 probably contemporary with the house.
Exterior
Coursed stone wall with coping and advanced central entrance flanked by deep volute scrolls. Segmental entrance arch with lions head keystone. Ironwork gates and anthemion patterned railings to either side, terminated to right in ball finial. Splayed at corner with ball finials and raised lettering reading Plas Menai. Wall steps up twice to join the front of the house.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Plas Menai.
Nearby in the register
- The Menai Vaults P.H.Commercialunder 1 mi
- Plas MenaiDomesticunder 1 mi
- Menai View TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Menai View TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.