Friar's Terrace

Friar's Terrace is a late 18th-century, three-storey, seven-window ashlar-fronted building arranged as a terrace. The central three bays project forward. It has a hipped slate roof and cement-rendered chimney stacks. Small-pane sash windows are retained in No 3, and to the ground and first floors of No 1. The entrances have six-panel doors; the central entrance to No 2 is distinguished by a broad, segmental head, flanked by sidelights, and a seven-pane fanlight. Nos 1 and 3 have six-pane doors. Slate steps lead up to each entrance from boarded doors at road level.

Coursed stone forecourt walls enclose the front gardens, and iron trellised railings with finials mark the boundaries. Small-pane sash windows are visible at the rear of No 3, which is constructed of rubble stone.

Adjoining the terrace to the east was formerly the Bangor Turnpike House on the A5, built by Thomas Telford. The terrace’s railings are similar to those on the Menai Bridge, and may also be by Telford. No 1 was undergoing renovation at the time of inspection in October 1987.