Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Schoolroom and Tan Capel
Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanbedrog, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, designated on 8 March 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 8 March 1999
- Locality
- Llanbedrog
- Town
- Pwllheli
- Community
- Llanbedrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.85841, -4.49443
- Cadw reference
- 21435
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 134 Pwllheli (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The two conjoined buildings form the NW side of the forecourt to Capel Peniel, on the road running NW towards Aberdaron.
History
Capel Peniel was built in 1866, and the school and master's house are probably contemporary with it.
Exterior
The schoolroom with the master's house, Tan Capel, attached at its lower end are built of local rubble with a continuous slate roof and eaves. The schoolroom is single storey, with a boarded door and overlight at the lower end, and three 12-pane horned sash windows. Slate sills. Gable brick stack. At the upper end, a wall containing a wide arch connects the schoolroom with the chapel house, the arch leading to a service yard. Tan Capel, now 2 cottages, is attached to the N gable end and is part of the same build. No 1 has C19 plate glass sash windows and a modern door; No 2 has a modern panelled hardwood door and its original 4-pane sash windows. At the centre, above the doors, a large recessed panel with the inscription TAN CAPEL M C 1888. Gable end stack.
Reason for designation
Included as small range of mid C19 buildings of local vernacular character; historically linked with Capel Peniel and, together with the chapel, forecourt walls and railings, all forming a focal point in the quasi-urban development of upper Llanbedrog.
Nearby in the register
- Capel Peniel, with adjoining manse and forecourt railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon Trwyn'r nantReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Nant Castell CampPromontory Fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-GaerPromontory Fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.