Gate Piers to the Drive at Normal College (George Hostel) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 August 1988. Gate piers.
Gate Piers to the Drive at Normal College (George Hostel)
- WRENN ID
- burning-latch-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1988
- Type
- Gate piers
- Address
- Gate Piers to the Drive at Normal College (George Hostel), Bangor
- OS grid reference
- SH 562 716
- Coordinates
- 53.22202, -4.15514
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The gate piers to the drive at Normal College, also known as George Hostel, are octagonal and made of painted stone. They feature bracketed, pyramidal caps and have arched-headed panels on each face with projected mouldings. There is a cast iron gate still attached to the left piers, but the gate on the right is missing.
Local climate
Gate Piers to the Drive at Normal College (George Hostel) 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 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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