Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Schoolhouse
Whitton, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Whitton, Powys, designated on 12 October 1992.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 12 October 1992
- Locality
- Whitton
- Community
- Whitton
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29921, -3.06873
- Cadw reference
- 9113
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)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 180 Knighton (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from Whitton-Llangunllo road behind large front garden. In village centre, adjacent to the Charity School.
History
Built 1767, extension added 1772, stone tiles and old windows removed in 1957. This building replaced an old farm which originally housed the Charity School from its inception in 1725. The classes were then held in this house from 1767 until the present school was erected in 1834.
Exterior
Two-storey three window, rendered stone rubble, double pile with separate hipped slate roofs. One-and-a-half storey extension to left with gabled roof and eaves dormer, rendered stone and slate. Further rubble lean-to to rear of this. Projecting stone stack with brick upper to left gable, flush brick stack to right. Three windows, modern casements, central part-glazed six-panel door, enclosed plank built glazed porch with gable and finial.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Rectory OutbuildingDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- U-Plan Farm Range (A) at Whitton CourtAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.