Neuadd Dyfrdwy (Normal College) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 April 1980. Townhouse.
Neuadd Dyfrdwy (Normal College)
- WRENN ID
- quartered-trefoil-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1980
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- Neuadd Dyfrdwy (Normal College), Bangor
- OS grid reference
- SH 578 725
- Coordinates
- 53.23051, -4.1305
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Neuadd Dyfrdwy, also known as Normal College, is a three-storey building with an attic and a five-bay front finished in cement render. It features a slate roof that has a swept-up ridge at the apices and swept boarded eaves. A louvred bellcote with a finial sits atop the building, alongside an off-centre cement rendered chimney stack located midway down the roof pitch. The central bay is taller and gabled, with kneelers, and more pronounced kneelers are present at the gable ends above tapered clasping buttresses that rise to the second floor level. The windows are small pane casements, with a stone mullioned window in the central gable. The staircase windows are stepped down and have dressed stone surrounds, featuring a 2+3+2-light grouping with the central three lights contained under a segmental pedimented architrave, which is lugged at the base. Raised lettering between the floors reads "Neuadd 1910 Dyfrdwy."
The ground floor has a broadly splayed five-light window, with the centre featuring half-glazed double doors in a splayed recess, and a four-light transomed window to the right. At the centre rear, there is a cross range that maintains similar architectural details and has a chimney stack rising through the gable. The ground floor is splayed across the junction of the cross range. The gable ends feature splayed attic oriels, with two-light windows below and four-light windows on the ground floor. Additionally, there is a single-storey arcaded and covered passage that adjoins the left gable end and turns to connect with the central Domestic and Dining Hall Range.
Local climate
Neuadd Dyfrdwy (Normal College) 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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