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
1483
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
St. Asaph V.P. School
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
St. Asaph
Town
Locality
Easting
304006
Northing
374317
Street Side
Location
Set back from the road behind forecourt, opposite the E end of the Cathedral.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Said to be dated 1857; by H John Fairclough of St Asaph (Records Office Plans dated 1862).
Exterior
Tudor asymmetrical single storey 4-bay school with 2 storey, 2 window house incorporated at left end with advanced gable bay, balanced by broader gable end to school hall to right end. Snecked hammer dressed rubble with freestone dressings including quoins, gable parapets and to window and door openings; plinth. Slate roofs with stone chimney stacks and cappings; cross roofs to gable ended bays. Blocked attic to left gable and punched trefoil over 3-light e e hall window to right gable with apex finials. 4-light square headed window to centre flanked by pointed arch entrance with half glazed doors. bipartite windows in gabled bay of house and similar tripartite windows set back to left.
Random coursed rubble gable end to left with sash window over entrance; parallel range set back extends to left with similar detail and modern window. Mixed rear elevation with steeper slate roof and small pane sash windows to house. Right side gable end has similar hall window to that on the front.
Gothic traceried iron railings and gate retained to front on low rubble wall.
Interior
Interior retains arched braced trusses to 4-bay hall ceiled in at collar level; diagonally set trusses spanning the two central bays with small pane glazed partition to middle; carved bracket corbel.
Reason for designation
A rare unspoilt example of mid-Victorian parochial school.
Group value with the Cathedral.
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