Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3946
Building Number
3
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/1988
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
NO.3 BISHOP'S CLOSE,,,,,GWYNEDD,
Address
3 Bishop's Close
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
258113
Northing
372027
Street Side
Location
At the S edge of the Cathedral Churchyard, reached down a path N off the High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1805 as almshouses, cost £650; renovated 1960. Established under the Bishop Rowlands Trust and originally known as the Bangor Hospital.
Exterior
Symmetrical 2-storey, 8-window squared rubble front formed of 2 groups of 3 dwellings; each with advanced and gabled central entrance bays. Slate roof, wide boarded eaves with end and central chimney stacks (2 heightened in brick). Band courses along bases of the steep gables. Small pane (mental frame) casement windows with Tudor labels except over narrower central windows. Pointed arch entrances with voussoirs, boarded doors and ogee headed lights. Rubble gable ends.
Stone screen walls set back at either end, single storey with pointed arched doorways. Spearhead railings extend to right adjoining No 205 High Street.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with St Deiniol’s Cathedral.
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