Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ysgoldy y Banc
Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ystrad Meurig, Ceredigion, designated on 23 December 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 23 December 2004
- Locality
- Ysbyty Ystwyth
- Town
- Ystrad Meurig
- Community
- Ysbyty Ystwyth
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.32851, -3.83411
- Cadw reference
- 83425
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated some 2 km E of Ysbyty Ystwyth, next to Pantyffynnon.
History
Small schoolhouse built in 1868, probably associated with the lead-mining community.
Exterior
Former school, rubble stone with slate eaves roof. Single storey. Front has plaque 'Ysgoldy y Banc 1868' in gable and narrow door with overlight and yellow brick head. Sides each have two elongated twelve-pane horned sash windows with C20 external shutters, and S end has one. Brick heads, slate sills. Roof of small slates.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare surviving example of a simple rural school-room, in the context of a scattered lead mining settlement now largely lost.
Nearby in the register
- Former cottage and outbuilding at Storehouse farmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cottage to SE of PantyrhedynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty CochDomesticunder 1 mi
- BronheulogDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.