Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old School House
Maentwrog, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Maentwrog, Gwynedd, designated on 30 November 1966.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 30 November 1966
- Locality
- Maentwrog
- Community
- Maentwrog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.94463, -3.98786
- Cadw reference
- 4829
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 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)
- 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 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Slightly set back from the E side of the road leading SE off Bull Street in the village of Maentwrog; located c.100m SE of the Church of St. Twrog.
History
Probably early C19 schoolhouse but of an earlier style.
William Gruffyd Oakeley (1790-1835) was only 21 when he inherited the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate and set about an ambitious programme of improving the estate properties, he set about building new buildings in the village of Maentwrog and rebuilding or improving the existing buildings.
Offered up for sale in the auction of the Plas Tan-y-bwlch estate, 1910, in Lot 12 'The Picturesque Rural Village of Maentwrog'. The property was described as Old School House, occupied by J E Jones, for an annual rent of £4-10s-0d.(£4.50)
Exterior
Early C19 school house, built of coursed stone, with large stones as quoins and lintels. Slate roof with stone copings and narrow rectangular gable stacks with dripstones and capping. The principal elevation faces the road to W, a 2-window range with central, round-headed doorway; first floor windows in gabled half dormers that break the eaves line and are surmounted by ball finials. Windows are modern timber casements.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey (June/July 2003).
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding alterations, as an early C19 schoolhouse that forms a group with the adjacent cottage and other buildings in the centre of the estate village of Maentwrog.
Nearby in the register
- DolyddDomesticunder 1 mi
- 1 Fron Fair TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Fron Fair TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Fron Fair TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.