Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old School House
Llanrwst, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanrwst, Conwy, designated on 19 February 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 February 1993
- Community
- Llanrwst
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13610, -3.79207
- Cadw reference
- 3597
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)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
To L of Old School. Entrance front faces Old School (roughly N).
History
One and a half storey house in Jacobean style. Original plans in County Record Office, Ruthin dated 1844; built 1846. Architect Henry Kennedy.
Exterior
Squared rubble with freestone dressings (painted); steeply-pitched slate roof; coped gables with kneelers. Central stone chimney with crenellations, similar chimney at W gable. Entrance elevation faces school. Below cornice, tiny central round-headed attic window with, to each side, small semi-hexagonal oriel window with head aligned with cornice and tiny splayed stone roof above. Central gabled porch with Gothic doorway, and door; small windows to porch sides. To each side of porch, two-light mullioned and transomed window with shallow cornice. Elevation facing road has coped gable with kneelers, two-light round-headed window on first floor; three-light mullioned and transomed window with shallow cornice to ground floor. At rear gable end has projecting stepped chimney. To W, single storey lean-to and modern attached garage.
Brick entrances to former air-raid shelters in basements.
Reason for designation
Group value with neighbouring school.
Nearby in the register
- Old SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Tollhouse (Brynamlwg)Transportunder 1 mi
- Bryn HyfrydDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding Range to rear of Bryn HyfrydAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.