Academic Unit and Gwynfryn Wards at the North Wales Hospital

The Academic Unit and Gwynfryn Wards at the North Wales Hospital are single-storey reception wings built in the Neo-Georgian style around a pre-existing Regency villa. The structure is made of rendered brick and features hipped greenish slate roofs laid in diminishing courses. The main block is L-shaped with a shallow-pitched roof and deep, bracketed eaves, predominantly showcasing small-pane horned sash windows. Above the first-floor windows, there is a single stringcourse, and a double stringcourse separates the ground and first floors.

The southwest front includes a central two-storey canted bay with paired sash windows at the front and single windows on the sides, with the ground-floor right window now serving as an entrance. Each floor has single flanking windows. The L return features another two-storey canted bay and an additional window to the right on each floor. At the rear, there is a single-storey Tuscan porch with glazed double entrance doors and a large rectangular overlight featuring intersecting tracery. The return has two windows, followed by a single-storey extension with a flat roof, which includes two windows and a round-arched doorway beyond. Above this flat-roofed section, there is a narrow window and glazed double doors with a rectangular overlight.

The southeast block, formerly the female wing, is a single-storey dormitory range connected to the central block by a corridor with round arches that were previously open. To the left, there is a projecting wing with a hipped roof and a canted bay, and a former verandah on the left side, consisting of four bays now fitted with modern glazing. The center features a projecting wing with a polygonal front, and there are five-bay verandahs on each side with hipped roofs and round columns, leading to glazed doors for the rooms beyond. The right verandah has a glazed screen, while the right bay of the left verandah has later glazing. At the rear, there is a semi-circular Tuscan porch with double glazed doors and small pane sashes on each side, along with three-window returns and flat-roofed blocks beyond.

The northwest block, designed as a mirror image of the southeast block, has been extensively and unsympathetically remodelled in recent years.