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
3949
Building Number
6  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
02/08/1988  
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988  
Name of Property
6 Bishops Close  
Address
6 Bishops Close  

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Bangor  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
258119  
Northing
372036  
Street Side
 
Location
At the S edge of the Cathedral Churchyard, reached down a path N off the High Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Built in 1805 as almshouses, cost £650; renovated 1960. Established under the Bishop Rowlands Trust and originally known as the Bangor Hospital.  

Exterior
Symmetrical 2-storey, 8-window squared rubble front formed of 2 groups of 3 dwellings; each with advanced and gabled central entrance bays. Slate roof, wide boarded eaves with end and central chimney stacks (2 heightened in brick). Band courses along bases of the steep gables. Small pane (mental frame) casement windows with Tudor labels except over narrower central windows. Pointed arch entrances with voussoirs, boarded doors and ogee headed lights. Rubble gable ends. Stone screen walls set back at either end, single storey with pointed arched doorways. Spearhead railings extend to right adjoining No 205 High Street.  

Interior
Ellis Jones, "Bangor", p 71. Liverpool Daily Post, August 26 1959. (Information from Mr V Hughes).  

Reason for designation
Group value with St Deiniol’s Cathedral.  

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