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Latitude: 53.227 / 53°13'37"N
Longitude: -4.1321 / 4°7'55"W
OS Eastings: 257765
OS Northings: 372114
OS Grid: SH577721
Mapcode National: GBR 5P.0QQM
Mapcode Global: WH547.H4JZ
Plus Code: 9C5Q6VG9+Q4
Entry Name: NO.2 Fron Dirion Terrace, Glanrafon Hill, Gwynedd
Listing Date: 2 August 1988
Last Amended: 2 August 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4009
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300004009
Location: Set in the slop above Bryn Teg Terrace with front gardens, rubble forecourt walls and iron railings.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Bangor
Community: Bangor
Locality: Glanrafon Hill
Built-Up Area: Bangor
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
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Built in 1851.
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.
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.
Group value with neighbouring terraces on Glanrafon Hill.
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