Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
18391
Building Number
8
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/04/1997
Date of Amendment
25/04/1997
Name of Property
8 Ogwen Terrace
Address
8 Ogwen Terrace
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bethesda
Town
Bangor
Locality
Bethesda
Easting
262385
Northing
366674
Street Side
S
Location
Situated in a terrace of 22 houses in centre of Bethesda, opposite War Memorial.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Terrace house of c1830-40, part of a an extensive curved terrace fronting onto the turnpike road to Holyhead. The terrace appears to have been built in connection with Telford's road to Holyhead, to an urban scale remarkable in what was primarily a slate-quarrying settlement.
Exterior
Colourwashed stucco with slate roof and large corniced slate stack to left, similar stack to right is roughcast, the stacks shared with adjoining houses. Three-storey, two-window range, hornless sashes, 9-pane to upper floor, 12-pane to first floor. Slate sills. Ground floor centre plate-glass tripartite sash, 4-panel door to right with traceried overlight.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of several of houses that retain original character in a fine late Georgian curved terrace of unusual scale.
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