Alliance & Leicester Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 May 1949. Bank. 2 related planning applications.

Alliance & Leicester Building Society

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 May 1949
Type
Bank
Address
Alliance & Leicester Building Society, 270 High Street, Bangor
OS grid reference
SH 582 721
Coordinates
53.22733, -4.12441
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Alliance and Leicester Building Society, located at 270 High Street in Bangor, is a three-storey building featuring a six-window ashlar front, which includes three pairs of windows. The facade is characterized by quoins, cill bands, a cornice at the ground floor, and a plinth, with the ground floor of the bank being channelled. The building has a slate roof with bracket eaves and cement-rendered chimney stacks.

On the first and second floors, there are sash windows, some of which are 12-pane, although most have had their glazing bars removed from the lower sashes. The bank section has a classical porch on the far left, which includes a parapet, an open pediment, tapered pilasters, and a lugged architrave. Steps lead up to panelled double doors adorned with scrolled ornamentation and a sign that reads "Bank established 1836." The building also features modern windows for the bank and a modern shop front for the building society, with some contemporary cast-iron railings still in place.

The left side of the building is rendered and includes small attic windows along with some sash windows. There is a flat-roofed, two-storey extension at the rear and a similar extension on the right side. The right side and rear are also cement rendered, featuring grilled small-pane sash windows and modern dormers at the rear.

Local climate

Alliance & Leicester Building Society sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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