Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former School Hall including adjoining Garden Wall to SW
Llandderfel, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandderfel, Bala, Gwynedd, designated on 31 January 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2001
- Locality
- Llandderfel
- Town
- Bala
- Community
- Llandderfel
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92124, -3.51484
- Cadw reference
- 24593
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1898 · 120 Corwen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Facing the square to the W of Pont Bach in the centre of the village.
History
Former National School, dated 1828. The building was altered later in the C19 at which point the present windows were inserted and the chimney added. The evidence for earlier openings remains.
Exterior
Small, rectangular school hall. Of local rubble construction with slate roof and small later C19 brick chimney to the N; slate verges to the N gable, with moulded bargeboards and projecting verges to the S. The main (E-facing) side has 2 large pointed-arched windows with red brick voussoirs and projecting sills; recessed multi-pane wooden casements. The S gable end has a similar window with a pointed-arched entrance to the L; this with recessed boarded door. Above the window is an inset slate plaque inscribed: 'National School 1828'. Blocked openings to the rear elevation and the N gable.
Adjoining the S gable flush with the E elevation is a short stretch of rubble wall. This sweeps around, following the curve of the lane, to enclose a small garden or forecourt. This has a boarded door in a wooden frame immediately adjacent to the hall building, and slopes down from this point to form a wall of approximately 1m height.
Interior
Plain interior with canted and boarded wooden ceiling.
Reason for designation
Listed as a second-quarter C19 dated village school with later C19 alterations, retaining good original external character.
Group value with other listed items in the village centre.
Nearby in the register
- Former Carthouse adjacent to the Outbuilding to the rear of Derfel GadarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding to the rear of Derfel GadarnAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cross KeysDomesticunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-boxCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.