At the corner with Ffordd Gwynedd, on sloping
site. Built in 1862 for the residentiary canons, sold to the University in 1950 for use as a museum and art gallery; High Victorian
gothic.
L-plan; 2-storey, basement and attic. Snecked rubble with freestone
dressings including quoins,
1st floor cill band, plinth
band and architraves.
Green slate roofs with cresting, rubble chimney stacks and overhanging
eaves. 1, 2 and 3-light spandreled windows, mostly with sash
glazing; those on the ground floor have transoms below cusped
quatrefoil
panelled heads with patterned glass. 2+1-window front with projecting
gabled
bay to left and hipped roof at right hand end. Pointed entrance
and 2-light plate-traceried hall window to right. Pitched roof
dormer with bargeboards and fishscale slates to the gable. Caernarvon
arch doorway in attached rubble wall to right.
2+2-window left side elevation; the advanced left hand part of which is formed of twin asymmetrical gable ends, the right hand one is slightly smaller; pointed relieving arches. Similar dormer window to right. 3-window NW elevation with central gable and similar dormer to left. Rear entrance at basement level below 2-light plate traceried window as on front. Asymmetrical window arrangement with panelled quatrefoil head to right only. The main window to NE side is sexfoil headed lighting the staircase which has a gothic balustrade. Attached at NW end is a low outbuilding range, formerly stables and coach house, the latter with higher cross gable and chimney stack. The property is enclosed by contemporary cast iron railings and entered between chamfered gate piers with pyramidal caps and billet moulding.
Group value with St Deiniol's Cathedral and other neighbouring listed items.
Reference: M L Clarke, "Bangor Cathedral", (1969) p 93.
