Neuadd Fon College(Normal College) is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 April 1980. Library.

Neuadd Fon College(Normal College)

WRENN ID
grim-baluster-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 April 1980
Type
Library
Address
Neuadd Fon College(Normal College), Bangor
OS grid reference
SH 578 725
Coordinates
53.23081, -4.13071
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Neuadd Fon College, also known as Normal College, is a three-storey building with an attic, featuring a five-bay front made of cement render. The slate roof has a swept-up ridge at the apices and swept boarded eaves. A louvred bellcote with a finial and an off-centre cement rendered chimney stack is located midway down the roof pitch. The central bay is taller and gabled, with kneelers, and there are more pronounced kneelers at the gable ends over tapered clasping buttresses that rise to the second floor level.

The windows are small pane casement types, mostly arranged in 2+2-light configurations with dividing panels, and feature bell dripmoulds. There are flat-roofed dormers and a stone mullioned window in the central gable. Above an advanced two-storey porch, there is a seven-light window with a cornice and semicircular pediment; the centre of the porch is made of freestone and includes half-glazed double doors with an architrave. To the left, there is a broadly splayed two-storey bay window. A cross range at the centre rear exhibits similar architectural details. The gable ends feature splayed attic oriels. A single-storey arcaded and covered passage connects this building with the Domestic and Dining Hall range.

Local climate

Neuadd Fon College(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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  7. Main Entrance to Normal College, attached Boundary Walls & entrance to Athroly's and Neuadd John Phi Grade II 112 m
  8. Domestic & Dining Hall Range at Normal College Grade II 114 m
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