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
3959
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/04/1980
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
Neuadd Dyfrdwy (Normal College)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
257887
Northing
372503
Street Side
Location
To NE side of the upper courtyard; faces SW.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Dated 1910. The Normal College was founded by the British and Foreign School Society to train teachers for non-denominational primary schools. This building resulted from an expansion begun in 1907 to accommodate the increased number of students and forms part of a H-plan group of linked ranges. Architect, Henry T Hare of London; contractors Messrs Willcock and Co of Wolverhampton. Arts and Crafts Tudor style; T-plan. Designed to accommodate 60 men.
Exterior
3-storey and attic, 5-bay cement render front; slate roof with swept up ridge to apices and swept boarded eaves. Louvred bellcote with finial and off centre cement rendered chimney stack midway down roof pitch. Central bay is taller and gabled with kneelers; more pronouned kneelers to gable ends over tapered clasping buttresses rising to 2nd floor level. Small pane casement windows with stone mullioned window to central gable. Staircase windows below stepped down and with dressed stone surrounds; 2+3+2-light grouping with central 3-lights contained under segmental pedimented architrave, lugged to base. Raised lettering between floors reads "Neuadd 1910 Dyfrdwy". Broadly splayed 5-light, centre with half glazed double doors in splayed recess. 4-light transomed window to ground floor right.
Interior
Cross range to centre rear with similar detail and chimney stack rising through gable; ground floor splayed across junction of cross range. Splayed attic oriels to gable ends; 2-light windows below and 4-light to ground floor. Single storey arcaded and covered passage adjoins left gable end and turns to link with the central Domestic and Dining Hall Range.
Reason for designation
Group Vale with the neighbouring Normal College Buildings.
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