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
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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