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
4088
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
17/04/1980
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
The Normal College (Original Building)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
257922
Northing
372496
Street Side
Location
On sloping site to W of the later courtyard ranges.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
The Normal College was founded by the British and Foreign School Society to train teachers for non-denominational primary schools. After starting in the vestry of Twrgwyn chapel Rev J Phillips raised the funds for this building, cost £13,500.
Built 1858-62 by James Barnett of London; Kennedy and Rogers were the contractors, accommodation areas converted ca 1910 following the buildings of the Halls of Residence. Jacobethan style.
Exterior
E-plan; 2-storey and attic. Ashlar with band courses; plinth and gable parapets. Slate roofs, taller to end wings; leaded bellcotes and stone chimney stacks (some across the angles). Generally server detail.
Symmetrical front to N with stepped gables to 7-window centre and shaped gables to 3-window end wings which also have bull nosed rubble basements; angles splayed to 1st floor. Central ‘prospect’ tower with shaped gable and gargoyles. Mullion and transom windows of various proportions; 2-storey bay windows to N faces of end wings and single storey bays with cornices to their return gabled porch with bowed oriel. Broad flight of steps up to triple entrance with heavily banded piers and keyblocked round arches (also to sides); panelled double doors flanked by narrow windows. Further entrance to left hand wing with central bay; basement extension to right hand wing. Narrow windows to tower with pitched roof and bullseye gable windows; weathervane dated 1862. 3-gabled side elevations; to right with central porch. Slightly advanced and gabled central and end bays at rear; to centre flanked by splayed bay windows with shaped parapets, 1st floor oriels to ends; pitched roof dormers and arched entrances with recessed doors.
Interior
The interior has square full height entrance hall/stairwell; stone staircase with highly ornate iron balustrade.
Reason for designation
Group value with later Halls of Residence and the former Gymnasium.
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