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
4071
Building Number
7  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
27/05/1949  
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988  
Name of Property
Menai View Terrace  
Address
7 Holyhead Road  

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Bangor  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
257519  
Northing
372282  
Street Side
 
Location
The middle section of a uniform terrace. set high above the road between Victoria Street and Bryn Y Mor.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Plots of land sold 1851; said to have been built in 1853.  

Exterior
Group of 3-storey and basement stucco fronts set in pairs with dividing panelled pilasters; wreathed cornice steps up from No 6 and there are quoins to left of No 12. Slate roofs, cement render chimney stacks and bracket eaves; small pane casement windows. Each front has a 2-storey splayed bay beside the paired central entrances with Tudor labels and 6-panel doors. The bays are carried on iron or timber columns over the slate steps to the basements with small pane sash windows. Nos 7 and 8 have contemporary railings to the steps up to the entrance. Gables cross ranges at rear; that to No 8 has an early C20 brick extension. Detached beyond that is the rubble, former coach-house with sandstone dressings and slate lintels. Twelve-pane sash windows to rear of No 9. The front gardens slope down to rubble forecourt walls with dressed stone coping, gate piers and finialled railings.  

Interior
The interior of No 8 retains a Victorian fireplace flanked by arched recesses to the main room.  

Reason for designation
Group value with the rest of Menai View Terrace  

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