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
4039
Building Number
270
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/05/1949
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
Alliance & Leicester Building Society
Address
270 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
258283
Northing
372137
Street Side
Location
Detached almost opposite the junction with Garth Road; Plasllwyd Terrace to left.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built ca1849.
Exterior
3-storey 6-window (3 pairs) ashlar front. Quoins, cill bands, ground floor cornice and plinth; channelled ground floor to Bank. Slate roof, bracket eaves and cement render chimney stacks. Sash windows to 1st and 2nd floors, some 12-pane but mostly with glazing bars removed to lower sashes. The Bank has a classical porch to far left with parapet, open-pediment, tapered pilaster sand lugged architrave - steps up to panelled double doors with scrolled ornament and lettering over - "Bank established 1836". Modern bank windows and modern building society shop front. Some of the contemporary cast-iron railings retained.
Rendered left side with small attic windows and some sash windows; flat roof 2-storey extension at rear and similar extension to right side. Cement rendered right side and rear with grilled small pane sash windows; modern dormers at rear.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Lloyds Bank and the Clock Tower.
Group Description
Nos 270 (Alliance and Leicester Building Society) and 270 (Midland Bank), High Street, Bangor.
3-storey, 6-window (3 pairs), ashlar front. Quoins, cill bands, ground floor cornice and plinth; channelled ground floor to Bank. Slate roof, bracket eaves and cement render chimney stacks. Sash windows to 1st and 2nd floors, some 12-pane but mostly with glazing bars removed to lower sashes. the Bank has a classical porch to far left with parapet, open-pediment, tapered pilasters and lugged architrave - steps up to panelled double doors with scrolled ornament and lettering over - "Bank established 1836". Modern bank windows and modern building society shop front. Some of the contemporary cast-iron railings retained.
Rendered left side with small attic windows and some sash windows; flat roof 2-storey extension at rear and similar extension to right side. Cement rendered right side and rear with grilled small pane sash windows; modern dormers at rear.
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