Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1411
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1962
Date of Amendment
09/04/2002
Name of Property
Old School (now Village Hall)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Tremeirchion
Town
Locality
Tremeirchion Village
Easting
308296
Northing
373051
Street Side
Location
In the forecourt of the Salusbury Arms, 30 m south-east of the Parish Church.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
An inscription on the added front porch gable states that the school was built in 1765, restored in 1835, and re-opened in 1988. This may overstate the age of the building, as Thomas refers to the school as built in 1835 'to replace an older school erected in 1765 which was inconveniently small'. Above the porch is the space of a missing former plaque.
The building has a small later extension encroaching into the churchyard.
It was superseded as a school when the existing church schools were opened in 1865. The building is now a village hall.
Exterior
Single storey building in roughly axe-dressed local limestone with a slate roof and tile ridge, on the boundary of Tremeirchion churchyard. The front has been extended with a brick porch (with end window and side door). The rear of the building has been altered and consists of larger uncoursed masonry.
At the side facing the forecourt of the Salusbury Arms are two square, three-light small-pane windows with cambered brick arched heads. On the other side, facing the churchyard, are a lean-to extension at the right, and two three-light casement windows in the original part also with cambered brick arches and a two-light reduced window in the altered rear part. The central window on this side has leaded quarries and a central small-pane casement.
Attached to the school is a three-step mounting block at the rear facing the forecourt of the public house.
Interior
Reason for designation
An interesting example of a small village school of the late C18 or early C19, listed also for group value with the Parish Church.
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