Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Yr Hen Ysgol
Llandyfriog, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 4 June 1996
- Locality
- Aberbanc
- Community
- Llandyfriog
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.04964, -4.39911
- Cadw reference
- 17596
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently situated in village centre.
History
Built in 1848 as a National School, serving the parishes of Henllan, Llanfair Orllwyn and Bangor Teifi. Architect, Charles Davies of Cenarth. Late C19 alterations and additions. Converted to a private house after 1976.
Exterior
Schoolhouse with T-shaped school to rear. Rubble construction with slate roofs, timber eaves and Barges. The bargeboards to the N gable and the three front dormer windows have carved scrollwork and pendant finals. Octagonal rubble chimney stacks to gables of house, brick gable stack to rear schoolroom . Two storey 3-bay front to house. Later timber cross-windows to ground floor with stone voussoirs and hood-moulds. Similar upper glazing with stone lintels under gabled dormers. Slate sills. Boarded central door with decorative 4-pane overlight, cambered stone voussoired head. N end with projecting gabled frame constructed of slate slabs. Plain S end.
Single storey 5-bay S elevation to rear schoolroom, remodelled in late C19. Penultimate 4-pane windows with cambered stone voussoired heads: the other 3 windows are taller, with 6 panes and rise to dormers with overhanging half-hipped roofs: stone lintels. Slate sills
N side with projecting schoolroom to centre, having two timber 4-light transom and mullion windows to N, each light with 4 panes. Slate sills and stone lintels. Two light 12-pane windows to E, similar to W: cambered stone voussoired heads. Porch to left in angle with house having boarded door to E and 6-pane window to E, the latter with head as above. Outshut porch to right, built against rear schoolroom having 3-light 18-pane window. to N with stone lintel and slate sill. Boarded door to W with 4-pane overlight and cambered stone voussoired head. Dormer window above to rear schoolroom with hipped roof and 3-light 18-pane window. Latter rubble extension to W end.
Interior
Rear schoolroom with late C19 kingpost-type roof and dividing glazed timber screen.
Reason for designation
Listed as well preserved former National school in attractive village setting.
Nearby in the register
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- Gates and Piers at Capel y DrindodReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Capel y DrindodReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Terraced row of 3 cottages , Right hand cottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.