Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Harold Road Junior School
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, designated on 2 October 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 2 October 1998
- Locality
- Abergavenny
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Abergavenny
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.82741, -3.02666
- Cadw reference
- 20523
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On large site taking up most of south side of Harold Road to the north of the town.
History
Bears dates 1897, and 1910. Probably designed by E A Johnson. Laboratories were added to the rear of the school in 1907. The building provided accommodation for the Intermediate Girls' School following the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889, and was then the County School for Girls, but it is now a primary school. This is a little altered example of a developed Board School.
Exterior
Built of yellow brick with Bath limestone dressings on grey stone plinth, red tiled roof with tiled cresting; yellow brick chimneys, cast-iron rainwater goods. In a Tudor style with some Jacobean details. Generally single-storey with large, high classrooms in the Victorian manner, only the later Science Block at the rear is 2-storeys. Horned small pane sash glazing set in mullion-and-transom windows.
Long front faces north to street. From left, projecting gabled block with Bath limestone banding and 5-light window; then, set back, two 2-light windows with gablets over; then gabled block with 4-light window which links via block with single-light window and two 2-light windows to further gabled block with gabled porch in angle; arched doorway. Gabled block has 5-light window. Five window west return with shallow buttresses.
East return has arched doorway between 2 gablets. Similar treatment to rear with, at right angles, 2-storey, 6-window block with hipped tiled roof. This is a later addition, probably inter-war, as it does not appear in early C20 photographs.
Rear elevation not inspected.
Interior
Interior not inspected at resurvey but is known to retain good original character including classrooms with part-glazed partitions flanking internal corridors, fine woodwork fittings and open timber roofs.
Reason for designation
Included for its special interest as a well preserved and designed example of a late C19 and early C20 board school.
Nearby in the register
- Wall, Gates and Railings of Harold Road Junior SchoolNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- House, including attached railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- House, including attached railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 31 North StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.