Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Schoolmaster's house at former British School
Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 May 2002
- Locality
- Caernarfon
- Town
- Caernarfon
- Community
- Caernarfon
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.14017, -4.27181
- Cadw reference
- 26619
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Reached up steps above the street and on the S side of the former school (now Caernarfon Youth and Community Centre).
History
A schoolmasters' house probably contemporary with the school, a British School built in 1856 by John Lloyd, architect of Caernarfon. The house is shown on the 1888 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 2-storey 3-window house of rubble stone with freestone dressings and quoins, and renewed slate roof with coursed stone end stacks. Windows were all boarded up at the time of inspection. The 3-window front has a central doorway with a fielded-panel door recessed in a round-headed arch with keystone. An asymmetrical accent is provided by a gable over the L-hand window. The R gable end has a small window inserted upper R with brick jambs. A gabled rear wing has a lower ridge line and end coursed-stone stack.
Reason for designation
Listed as an integral component of the British school, and as such is part of a rare well-preserved mid C19 school complex.
Nearby in the register
- Caernarfon Youth and Community CentreRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Capel Salem, including forecourt gates and railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The FountainGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- 44 Pool StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.