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2  

II  

Designated  

02/08/1988  

02/08/1988  

NO.2 FRON DIRION TERRACE,GLANRAFON HILL,,,,,GWYNEDD,  

2 Fron Dirion Terrace  

Gwynedd  

Bangor  

 

Glanrafon Hill  

257765  

372114  

 

Set in the slop above Bryn Teg Terrace with front gardens, rubble forecourt walls and iron railings.  

Domestic  

 

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.