Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Parish Hall
Llanfihangel Rhydithon, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 23 May 1974
- Community
- Llanfihangel Rhydithon
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.29203, -3.24646
- Cadw reference
- 9274
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominent roadside position in centre of Llanfihangel Rhydithon, 50m north-west of the parish church.
History
Tollhouse of c.1800 converted to schoolhouse in 1848 when adjoining new school-room added. Became Parish Hall upon closure of school in 1930s.
Exterior
Single-storey octagonal tollhouse, coursed rubble, hipped slate roof with leaded ridges, boxed eaves. Blocked former entrance on roadside with stone plaque above reading: "This school was erected by subscriptions of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of this parish AD 1848".
Original projecting rubble stack on north-west side now capped by the roof. Single windows to the two side walls flanking the entrance, each with flat voussoir arch and stone cill, tall mullion and transom lights with small-pane glazing. Blocked window at north-west end.
Single-storey entrance section links former tollhouse to taller single-storey school-room with high pitched roof. Rubble blocks, ashlar quoins and window dressings. Slate roof with two small dormer lights set near to the ridge. Gable end encased in tin sheeting. Boarded entrance door in shouldered arch doorway. Twin, paired sash windows with central chamfered ashlar mullions. Plain rear.
Reason for designation
Prominently-sited, early C19 building of considerable interest to social history of the area.
Nearby in the register
- Part of L-Plan range at Lower House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Part of L-Plan Range at Lower House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- CraffrynDomesticunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding immediately to SW of CraffrynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.