Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
School House
Welshpool, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pool Quay, Welshpool, Powys, designated on 29 February 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 29 February 1996
- Locality
- Pool Quay
- Community
- Welshpool
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.70121, -3.09885
- Cadw reference
- 16769
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 151 Welshpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1916 · Sheet 60. Shrewsbury. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Alongside the A483 150m approx. N of the church at Pool Quay.
Exterior
History: The school was built at the initiative of the Third Earl of Powis in conjunction with the provision of a church at Pool Quay. He gave the site, though it was the parishioners who were responsible for building the school. The building was completed in 1863, and a second class-room was added to the rear in 1872. The school was closed in 1946.
Exterior: Brick with slate roof; axial and rear wall stacks. Single storeyed school room to the right, and schoolmaster's house as a 2 storeyed gabled cross-range to the left. This has doorway in its re-entrant angle, and wood mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3 lights with flat arched gauged brick heads in the gable end. Fretted barge-boards to gable. School room has 3x3-light wood transomed windows, and similar windows in gable end and rear wing, which also houses entrance. All windows have lattice glazing.
Included as a good example of a small rural school of the mid C19.
Reference: D.H.W., 'Parish of Pool Quay', leaflet in Pool Quay Church.
Nearby in the register
- Crowther Hall LockTransportunder 1 mi
- Lock Cottage at Crowther Hall LockTransportunder 1 mi
- Bridge 110 over the Montgomeryshire CanalTransportunder 1 mi
- Crowther HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.