Latitude: 53.2307 / 53°13'50"N
Longitude: -4.1133 / 4°6'47"W
OS Eastings: 259034
OS Northings: 372491
OS Grid: SH590724
Mapcode National: GBR 5Q.0H97
Mapcode Global: WH547.S2G3
Plus Code: 9C5Q6VJP+7M
Entry Name: Portico to the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel
Listing Date: 27 May 1949
Last Amended: 2 August 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4095
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300004095
Location: At the side of the lane leading up to the Golf Club; retained as a feature in the Penybryn gardens.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Bangor
Community: Bangor
Built-Up Area: Bangor
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Portico
Formerly the portico at the main entrance to the Penrhyn Arms Hotel built in 1799 by Benjamin Wyatt. Owned by Bicknell family in earlier C19 and then in 1884 it became the first home of the University College of North Wales. Additions were made by Richard Davies, architect of Bangor. The University moved to new buildings in 1926 and the hotel was later demolished to enable the A5 to be re-routed slightly to the N.
Freestone Tuscan Doric portico set against a coursed rubble arched entrance that formed part of the long Georgian front. Voussoirs to archway and sockets for beams for porch roof. Paired columns to the front of the portico, pilasters to the block; plain entablature with slate plaque reading: "1799-1884 Yma Y Safai Gwesty’r "Penrhyn Arms" Cartref Cyntaf Coleg Prifysgol Gogledd Cymru 1884-1926".
Group value with Penybryn House, The Old Farmhouse, Penybryn Bridge and the old road cutting.
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