Rhydalun House

Rhydalun House at 2-6 Bangor Street is a terrace of 3½-storey shops with dwellings above, designed in a vigorous enriched classical style. The building features a roughcast front, mansard slate roof hipped to the right, and roughcast chimney stacks. While the lower-storey shop fronts have been altered, the upper storeys retain a single coherent design scheme.

The middle and upper storeys are articulated by double-height fluted and wreathed Ionic pilasters framing each property, topped by a deep dentilled cornice and short Tuscan pilasters rising to the attic. Between numbers 4 and 6, an original cast iron anthemion finial survives.

Number 4 and 6 each have a pair of 4-pane horned sash windows in the middle storey, set in architraves moulded above Tuscan pilaster capitals. Number 6 additionally retains an iron sign bracket between these middle-storey windows. Number 2, at the right end, features a tripartite window in a segmental-headed architrave, moulded above crocket capitals with a foliage-enriched keystone, flanked by colonnettes with matching capitals. The central round-headed light has been replaced, but the outer segmental-headed windows retain their original 4-pane sashes. A blank inscription band above the middle-storey windows forms a plain architrave.

In the upper storey, each property has two segmental-headed 4-pane sash windows in moulded architraves above Tuscan pilaster capitals. The attic storey varies by property: number 2 has a half dormer containing a pair of replaced windows in segmental-headed keyed architraves, beneath a single open segmental pediment on moulded corbels; number 4 has a 4-pane sash window in a segmental-headed keyed architrave within a gabled half dormer; number 6 has a round-headed 4-pane sash window under a moulded head with keystone, set in a round-headed half dormer.

The right corner is rounded and rebated between Ionic pilasters, displaying 'Rhydalun House' in raised letters at attic level. The right-hand side wall facing North Penrallt comprises a single bay similar to the front of number 2, including its attic dormer, though without colonnettes to the middle-storey window. Further right extends a plainer 3½-storey wing of 4 unequal bays. This section has a roughcast front with broad bands between storeys, a deep bracketed eaves cornice below the attic, and a slate mansard roof. The lower storey contains segmental-headed keyed architraves to 4-pane horned sash windows, with a replaced door in the bay right of centre and a boarded passage door in the narrow right-hand bay. The middle and upper storeys feature segmental-headed moulded architraves with keystones to 4-pane horned sash windows; the narrow end bay contains a similar 2-pane window with a boarded lower sash. The attic has a central 4-pane round-headed half dormer; similar half dormers that were equally spaced right and left have been removed and replaced with skylights. The right-hand bay retains a small attic window.

The lower-storey shop front is a late twentieth-century replacement of an original front that probably incorporated the main entrance in the splayed corner, with the right side wall partly infilled. Consoles and end panels of the original fascia survive at the left end of the Bangor Street elevation and right end of the North Penrallt elevation.