Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old School
Nolton and Roch, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Nolton, Haverfordwest, Nolton and Roch, Pembrokeshire, designated on 1 March 1963.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 1 March 1963
- Locality
- Nolton
- Town
- Haverfordwest
- Community
- Nolton and Roch
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82121, -5.09634
- Cadw reference
- 12001
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 227 Milford (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 227 Milford (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in corner of Nolton churchyard, fronting directly on road.
History
Early C19 Church School built by the Rev. Moses Grant, vicar from 1767 to 1810. Said to be dated 1810. Plan of 1876 by T.P. Reynolds of Haverfordwest, minor alterations in the 1890s by D.E. Thomas of Haverfordwest. The schoolroom was on the upper floor and 2 rooms for the master on the ground floor.
Exterior
Church school, rubble-stone with slate roof and red terracotta ridges. Two storeys, two pointed Gothic windows with glazing bars to schoolroom on upper floor and centre pair of late C19 8-pane sashes. Ground floor has two windows boarded over but said to be sashes each side of door. Cambered heads, stone voussoirs and keystones. Blocked door in right gable end. Left end addition, set slightly back and with lower roof. One similar first floor pointed window. Larger small-paned pointed window in W end wall and door to ground floor right with slab lintel. Rear N side of addition is windowless. Rear of main range has one eaves-breaking pointed window under slate-roofed gable, blocked pointed first floor window to right and long blocked opening to left.
Reason for designation
Of regional importance in the history of education as an early school building. Group value with the parish church.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St MadocReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Nolton RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nolton ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Trefrane Cliff Colliery ChimneyIndustrial1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.