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
3955
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
02/08/1988  
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988  
Name of Property
Former Normal College Gymnasium (Gwynedd Technical College, Art & Design Section)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Bangor  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
257852  
Northing
372394  
Street Side
 
Location
On sloping ground, set below the road.  

Description


Broad Class
Education  
Period
 

History
Ca 1910, probably by H T Hare, architect of the neighbouring hostels. Edwardian Arts and Crafts style. Built as the Gymnasium to the Normal College.  

Exterior
Asymmetrical single storey, pebbledash 8-bay gabled front with attic to centre. Cement render dressings including quoins and gable parapets; flat buttresses divide central bays. Slate roofs with skylights, ventilator and cresting; pebbledash chimney stacks including one tapered lateral chimney breast with stack against gabled projection. Flat roof attic has 7-light small pane casement window and segmental pediment. Stepped and shaped gables with finials to either end, to right with Baroque scrolls; cross frame windows to left (curious mixture of sash and casement) and thermal window to right. Advanced lower gables between with plain bargeboards and applied timberwork; 3-light windows. 3-windows similarly gabled side elevations with overhanging eaves; small pane windows. Rear elevation has 3-gables to either end stepping inwards; shaped outer gables and central attic as on front. Lower extension and stone steps up to modern entrance. Iron railings to front. Square gate piers, with gates, at either end; gall finials and vermiculated panels and chamfered corners.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value with Normal College Original Building and the University College of North Wales main building.  

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