Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former National School and School-house
Llandough, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 6 April 1989
- Locality
- Llandough
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Llandough
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.45117, -3.19950
- Cadw reference
- 13431
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on a corner, the former school fronting Penlan Road and the schoolhouse fronting Lewis Road
History
Early C19. Original list description of 1989 refers to whitewash and render finish to school. Shown as two separate units on the 1841 Tithe Map, school house and cottage.
Exterior
Former school and attached school-house now a single dwelling. Built of coursed limestone on a plinth with brick dressings to school windows and Welsh slate roof; centre brick ridge stack to school, end stack to house. Plan of single storey school with central fireplace and 2-storey house cross wing. Two 20-pane sash windows with cambered heads to school frontage; blocked square-headed window under wide voussoirs to gable end. Stepped back is the house wing which has a doorway with boarded door under cambered voussoirs and a single 12-pane casement window to each floor, cambered voussoirs to ground floor.
Interior
Interior retains flag floors. Wide black fireplace in main former school room with narrow wood stairs rising adjacent, parallel with the wall; boarding encasing stairs is visible in corner of living room of house; boarded doors.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare survivor in Glamorgan of a local school building and school-house from the early C19.
Nearby in the register
- Pound CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pillar-Cross in Llandough ChurchyardCrossunder 1 mi
- Church of St DochdwyReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Cardiff and District Western District Sewerage Pumping Station.Water Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.