Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Retaining walls at Ysgoldy Fach
Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Tre Taliesin, Machynlleth, Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion, designated on 14 January 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 14 January 2000
- Locality
- Tre Taliesin
- Town
- Machynlleth
- Community
- Llangynfelyn
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.50683, -3.97853
- Cadw reference
- 22780
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 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 · 163 Aberystwyth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Former school is prominently situated on the E side of the main road on N side of village, built above high retaining wall.
History
Retaining wall to former National School erected 1856, probably designed by Roderick Williams of Aberystwyth, architect and builder. Now used as a community hall.
Exterior
High rubble stone wall, approximately 3 metres tall. Roadside wall is parallel to the frontage of the school. Thin slab tabling with copings above of rounded vertically-laid stone slabs. Wall returns for short distance to right, abutting later playground wall: similar copings, and central gateway. To right, retaining wall slopes to ground level, providing ramped entry to gate.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Ysgoldy Fach.
Nearby in the register
- Yr Ysgoldy FachEducationunder 1 mi
- Milestone just north of Tre TaliesinTransportunder 1 mi
- No.19 Pencae, and front railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Village WellWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.