Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tregynon School Boundary Wall
Tregynon, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tregynon, Powys, designated on 31 January 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1997
- Locality
- Tregynon
- Community
- Tregynon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.57818, -3.33700
- Cadw reference
- 18148
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located at a junction of 2 minor roads 50m SW of parish church. The wall forms the S and E boundary of the school, and extends W to the front of the School House.
History
Constructed with the school in 1871 in unreinforced concrete by Henry Hanbury-Tracy as part of the Gregynog Estate. Hanbury-Tracy's use of the material on the Gregynog Estate was intended to demonstrate the economic benefits of building in concrete. The concrete was made from river gravel and crushed brick bonded with cement. It was laid in wet courses directly onto the wall using timber shuttering and finished with a thin skim coat of render.
Exterior
The wall is of rendered concrete with saddleback coping, with large unrendered blank panels in which the use of crushed brick creates gives a reddish hue. On the E side the wall is swept up to gateposts with pyramidal caps. N of this a new gateway allowing vehicular access was inserted late C20.
Reason for designation
Of special interest for its experimental use of concrete, and for group value with Tregynon School and the School House.
Nearby in the register
- Tregynon SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- The School HouseEducationunder 1 mi
- Church of St CynonReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.