Main Entrance to Normal College, attached Boundary Walls & entrance to Athroly's and Neuadd John Phi is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 April 1980. College entrance.
Main Entrance to Normal College, attached Boundary Walls & entrance to Athroly's and Neuadd John Phi
- WRENN ID
- crooked-roof-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1980
- Type
- College entrance
- Address
- Main Entrance to Normal College, attached Boundary Walls & entrance to Athroly's and Neuadd John Phi, Bangor
- OS grid reference
- SH 579 724
- Coordinates
- 53.23007, -4.12955
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The main entrance to the Normal College, built in a set-back style, features octagonal ashlar gate piers topped with ball finials above cornices. The bases of the piers have spurs, and the driveway is paved with stone setts leading to double gates. Attached to the entrance are rubble walls with freestone coping that create quadrant-shaped wings on either side. These walls slope down to form boundary walls that extend to the left towards the entrance of Athrolys, which has similar gate piers without cornices, and to the right towards the entrance of Neuadd John Phillips, again featuring similar gate piers.
Local climate
Main Entrance to Normal College, attached Boundary Walls & entrance to Athroly's and Neuadd John Phi 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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