Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hen Ysgol and schoolhouse
Cwm Cadnant, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Llandegfan
- Community
- Cwm Cadnant
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.24448, -4.14997
- Cadw reference
- 5484
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the N side of Bro Llewellyn at the N end of the village of Llandegfan.
History
Early C19 National School and schoolhouse, built on church lands in 1832; entrance door added in 1901, to commemorate visit of Queen Victoria.
Exterior
Early C19 school with schoolhouse adjoining. Built of mortared uncoursed rubble with large quoin stones. Low pitched slate roof of small slates, with rendered rectangular stacks with capping. The school has slightly recessed 30-paned sash windows. The entrance via a gabled porch, the doorway has flanking unequal sash windows of 6 panes and there is a slate plaque over which reads: This building / was restored in the year 1901 / In Memory of / Her Most Gracious Majesty / Queen Victoria / who visited Anglesea / with her mother the Duchess of Kent / in the year 1832. To L of the porch is another slate plaque which reads: Her Royal Highness The / Duchess of Kent / Munificently contributed £50 / towards the erection of this / schoolhouse / August / 1832.
The schoolhouse has a doorway in the front elevation, offset to L and replacement casement windows to R; rear door offset to L with 1st floor window over. All ground floor openings have slate lintels, 1st floor windows set directly under eaves
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good and little altered early C19 school and schoolhouse which retains much of its original character in plan and materials and the retention of small-paned sash windows.
Nearby in the register
- Wellhouse by Hen YsgolWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Melin LlandegfanIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Llandegfan Parish HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-Maen Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.