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
17280
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/09/1996
Date of Amendment
12/09/1996
Name of Property
County Primary School
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Kerry
Town
Newtown
Locality
Kerry
Easting
314846
Northing
290017
Street Side
S
Location
Prominently located at the entrance to the village from the E, approximately 120m from the Square.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
National School, built 1868 on glebe land by J.W.Poundley (1807-1872), County Surveyor, of Black Hall, Kerry, pupil of Thomas Penson of Oswestry, to replace No. 1 The Square as the village school. It was extended c1930-40 in a similar style, and with further buildings added to the W in the later C20.
Exterior
Yellow brick with rock-faced local stone shaley limestone quoins and dressings. Slate roof with perforated ridges. The main building is at right angles to the road, and comprises a 3-bay hall, a 2-bay cross wing at the S end, and a 2-storey entrance tower with spire at the NE corner. Boarded door with iron hinges and perimeter studding within a moulded pointed arch. One large gable slightly set forward and containing a 3-light window, the lancets separated by colonettes, and cinquefoils in the spandrels. Ventilator above, and stack with sloping shoulders at the side. Similar window on gable end of wing, which contains a further classroom, and has a terminal stack. Spire roof breaks back to louvred timber stage, arched to each section, and a pyramidal spire over.
Interior
Open raftered roof on 2 tiers of purlins, the truss extended by wall posts to corbels. Scissor braces to the roof of the main range.
Reason for designation
Included as a prominent Kerry landmark, relatively unaltered on its prominent E elevation, designed to balance the Reading Room on the S side of the main road.
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