Former Garth Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. Primary school.
Former Garth Primary School
- WRENN ID
- moated-sill-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1988
- Type
- Primary school
- Address
- Former Garth Primary School, Bangor
- OS grid reference
- SH 584 729
- Coordinates
- 53.23422, -4.12292
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Garth Primary School is a symmetrical single-storey building designed in the Tudor style, constructed with rubble and featuring Penmon dressings. It has a slate roof and cement rendered chimney stacks. The gable ends of the cross ranges are set forward at each end, adorned with parapets, kneelers, and finials. Each gable end has a central porch; the left one serves the Boys and the right one serves the Girls. These porches are flanked by cross frame windows that have Tudor hoodmoulds. Above the main gabled section, there are attic ventilation slits positioned over inscribed slate tablets that provide the date and other details. Set back in the middle are three similar cross frame windows, with the central one being higher and topped with a gabled roof. Below this, there is a later cement rendered porch featuring a half-glazed door.
At the rear, a cross range extends lower than the side sections, with three rubble gable ends, two of which still have their paired diagonally set chimney stacks. Off-centre, there is an original gabled range with cross frame windows, along with a corrugated iron extension to the left and a lean-to on the right. A flat-roofed dormer window is located on the left-hand side.
Local climate
Former Garth Primary School 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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