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
3961
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/04/1980
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
Neuadd Eryri (Normal College)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
257850
Northing
372507
Street Side
Location
To SW side of the lower courtyard; stepped in the slope and faced NE. Also reached from Menai Road.
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-departmental primary schools. This building resulted from an expansion begun in 1907 to accommodate the increased number of students and forms part of an 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 40 women.
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 pronounced kneelers to gable ends over tapered clasping buttresses rising to 2nd floor level. Small pane casement windows with bell dripmoulds, mostly 2+2-light with dividing panel; first roofed dormer and stone mullioned window to central gable. 7-light window over advanced 2-storey porch with cornice and semicircular pediment; freestone to centre over half glazed double doors with architrave. Broadly splayed 2-storey bay windows to either side and further half glazed door inserted into a 4-light window right.
Cross range to centre rear with similar detail. Splayed attic oriels to gable ends. Single storey arcaded and covered passage connects with the Domestic and Dining Hall range.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with the neighbouring Normal College buildings.
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