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Neuadd Alun (Normal College)

A Grade II Listed Building in Bangor, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2302 / 53°13'48"N

Longitude: -4.1303 / 4°7'49"W

OS Eastings: 257897

OS Northings: 372469

OS Grid: SH578724

Mapcode National: GBR 5P.0K50

Mapcode Global: WH547.J2DH

Plus Code: 9C5Q6VJ9+3V

Entry Name: Neuadd Alun (Normal College)

Listing Date: 17 April 1980

Last Amended: 2 August 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3958

Building Class: Education

ID on this website: 300003958

Location: To SW side of the upper courtyard; faces NE.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Bangor

Community: Bangor

Built-Up Area: Bangor

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Dated 1910. The Normal College was founded by the British and Foreign School Society to train teachers for non-denominational 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 60 men.

Exterior

3-storey and attic, 5 bay cement render front; slate roof with swept up ridge to apices and swept boarded eaves. Louvered bellcote with finial and off centre cement render 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; flat roofed dormers and stone mullioned window to central gable. Staircase windows below stepped down and with dressed stone surrounds; 2 3 2-light grouping with central 3-lights contained under a segmental pedimented architrave, lugged to base. Raised lettering between floors reads "Neuadd 1910 Alun". Broadly splayed 5-light 2-storey bays to either side; low segmental and chamfered arched entrance to centre with half-glazed double doors in splayed recess. 4-light transomed window to ground floor right.

Cross range to centre rear with similar detail. Chimney stack rising through gable and ground floor splayed across junction of cross range. Splayed attic oriels to gable ends; 2-light windows below and 4-light to ground floor. Single storey arcaded and covered passage adjoins right gable end and turns to lkink with teh central Domestic and Dining Hall range.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with the neighbouring Normal College Buildings.

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