Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ty'r Ysgol
Llangernyw, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llangernyw, Abergele, Conwy, designated on 17 March 1999.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 17 March 1999
- Locality
- Llangernyw
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Llangernyw
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.19187, -3.68465
- Cadw reference
- 21471
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)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Ty'r Ysgol adjoins the E end of the former village school below and approximately 30m SE of the Church of St Digain, and is entered through a gateway leading from the school yard on the W side.
History
Former village school probably built in 1852. Schoolhouse appears to be of a later C19 date.
Exterior
One-and-a-half storey Domestic Revival schoolhouse adjoining former village school, T-shaped on plan with principal range on E side aligned at right-angles to the school building. Built of colourwashed rendered masonry with gabled slate roofs. Rectangular sandstone ashlar chimney stacks with widely chamfered quoins terminating in splayed stops at base. Four-light timber mullioned and transomed windows with subdivided casements and cambered heads to ground floor. First floor has double casement windows in camber-headed openings set within gables and gabled half dormers. Single storey rendered porch at internal angle of S and W elevation with hipped slate roof boarded front door and 4-pane side window.
Interior
Interior not accessible for inspection at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed Domestic Revival building, which forms part of a group with the Church of St Digain and the former village school.
Nearby in the register
- Youth ClubRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Group of 2 Monuments in churchyard to Church of St DigainMiscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Two Cross-Incised Stones in St Digain's Churchyard, LlangernywCross-marked stoneunder 1 mi
- Church of St DigainReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.