Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Normal College Gymnasium (Gwynedd Technical College, Art & Design Section)
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1988
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22951, -4.13097
- Cadw reference
- 3955
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On sloping ground, set below the road.
History
Ca 1910, probably by H T Hare, architect of the neighbouring hostels. Edwardian Arts and Crafts style. Built as the Gymnasium to the Normal College.
Exterior
Asymmetrical single storey, pebbledash 8-bay gabled front with attic to centre. Cement render dressings including quoins and gable parapets; flat buttresses divide central bays. Slate roofs with skylights, ventilator and cresting; pebbledash chimney stacks including one tapered lateral chimney breast with stack against gabled projection. Flat roof attic has 7-light small pane casement window and segmental pediment. Stepped and shaped gables with finials to either end, to right with Baroque scrolls; cross frame windows to left (curious mixture of sash and casement) and thermal window to right. Advanced lower gables between with plain bargeboards and applied timberwork; 3-light windows.
3-windows similarly gabled side elevations with overhanging eaves; small pane windows. Rear elevation has 3-gables to either end stepping inwards; shaped outer gables and central attic as on front. Lower extension and stone steps up to modern entrance.
Iron railings to front. Square gate piers, with gates, at either end; gall finials and vermiculated panels and chamfered corners.
Reason for designation
Group value with Normal College Original Building and the University College of North Wales main building.
Nearby in the register
- Domestic & Dining Hall Range at Normal CollegeEducationunder 1 mi
- Gate Piers to grounds of Normal College HostelsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pillar Box on Pavement to W of Music Department BuildingCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- Athroly's (Normal College)Educationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.