Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
3960
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
17/04/1980  
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988  
Name of Property
Domestic & Dining Hall Range at Normal College  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Bangor  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
257837  
Northing
372428  
Street Side
 
Location
At the centre of the Top College site; linked to the Halls of Residence by arcaded and covered passages. On steeply sloping site.  

Description


Broad Class
Education  
Period
 

History
Opened 1911. 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 cater for the increased number of students and forms the central range in an H-plan group. Architect, Henry T Hare of London; contractors, Messrs Willcock and Co of Wolverhampton. Arts and Crafts Tudor style.  

Exterior
3-bay SE front with projecting single storey broad gabled Dining Hall to centre and low 2-storey 1-window porch towers set back to either side. Further set back are 2-storey and attic ranges projecting from the full width transverse range overlooking the lower courtyard. Cement render with rubble plinth and freestone dressings. Slate roofs, pyramidal flanking Dining Hall gable end: wide eaves and louvred bellcote with finial and weathervane; cement render chimney stacks. Stepped buttresses to Dining Hall and tall splayed 6-light bay window with 3-transoms. 3-light windows to flanking ranges, square headed to 1st floor, segmental below. Raised pediments to side and modern extensions below. Hipped roof dormers to extreme end ranges. The stepped 7-window NW front is set in the slope. Advanced and gabled pavilions to ends; taller gable to centre with similar 6-light, 3-transom Dining Hall oriel; mullioned and transomed windows to either side and segmental headed windows below with flanking pilasters. Arcaded and covered passages to either end link with Neuadd Eryri and Fon.  

Interior
The Dining Hall is T-shaped with ribbed segmental roof - groin vaulted over the junction of the two ‘arms’. Dentil cornice and panelled dado. Formerly contained accommodation for servants.  

Reason for designation
Group value with the adjoining Normal College buildings.  

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