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Latitude: 53.2308 / 53°13'50"N
Longitude: -4.1307 / 4°7'50"W
OS Eastings: 257874
OS Northings: 372536
OS Grid: SH578725
Mapcode National: GBR 5P.0K2M
Mapcode Global: WH547.J271
Plus Code: 9C5Q6VJ9+8P
Entry Name: Neuadd Fon College(Normal College)
Listing Date: 17 April 1980
Last Amended: 2 August 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3962
Building Class: Education
Also known as: Neuadd Fon (Normal College) College
ID on this website: 300003962
Location: To NE side of the lower courtyard; stepped in the slope and facing SW. Also reached from Menai Road.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Bangor
Community: Bangor
Built-Up Area: Bangor
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure University building
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 froms 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 40 women.
3-storey and attic, 5-bay cement render front; slate roof with swept up ridge to apices and swept boarded eaves. Louvred bellcote with finial and off-centre cement rendered 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 panels; flat rooted dormers and stone mullioned window to central gable. 7-light window over advanced 2-storey porch with cornice and semicircular pediment; freestone to centre over half glazed double doors with architrave. Broadly splayed 2-storey bay window to left. Cross range to centre rear with similar detail. Splayed attic oriels to gable ends. Single storey arcaded and covered passage connects with the Domestic and Dining Hall range.
Group vale with the neighbouring Normal College buildings.
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