Bangor Museum & Art Gallery, including outbuilding at NW end is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 April 1980. Museum. 3 related planning applications.
Bangor Museum & Art Gallery, including outbuilding at NW end
- WRENN ID
- broken-gateway-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1980
- Type
- Museum
- Address
- Bangor Museum & Art Gallery, including outbuilding at NW end, LL57 1DT
- OS grid reference
- SH 581 721
- Coordinates
- 53.22739, -4.12679
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bangor Museum & Art Gallery, which includes an outbuilding at the northwest end, is a two-storey building with a basement and attic. It is constructed of snecked rubble with freestone dressings, featuring quoins, a first-floor cill band, a plinth band, and architraves. The roofs are covered with green slate and have cresting, rubble chimney stacks, and overhanging eaves. The building has one, two, and three-light mullioned windows, mostly with sash glazing. The ground floor windows have transoms below cusped quatrefoil panelled heads with patterned glass. The front has a two plus one window arrangement, with a projecting gabled bay on the left and a hipped roof at the right end. There is a pointed entrance and a two-light plate-traceried window in the hall to the right. A pitched roof dormer with bargeboards and fishscale slates is located at the gable.
To the right, there is a Caernarfon arch doorway set in an attached rubble wall. The property is enclosed by contemporary cast iron railings and accessed through chamfered gate piers topped with pyramidal caps and billet moulding.
The left side elevation features a two plus two window arrangement, with the advanced left part consisting of twin asymmetrical gable ends, the right one being slightly smaller, and a pointed relieving arch. There is a similar dormer window on the right. The northwest elevation has a three-window arrangement with a central gable and a similar dormer on the left. A rear entrance at basement level is located below a two-light plate traceried window, similar to the front. The window arrangement on this side is asymmetrical, with a panelled quatrefoil head to the right only. The main window on the northeast side is sexfoil headed and lights the staircase, which features a Gothic stack.
Local climate
Bangor Museum & Art Gallery, including outbuilding at NW end 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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