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
20188
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
28/07/1998
Date of Amendment
28/07/1998
Name of Property
Castle School and School house
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Kidwelly
Town
Kidwelly
Locality
Kidwelly/Cydweli
Easting
240759
Northing
206969
Street Side
Location
Situated just within medieval town gateway, at junction of Castle Street and Bailey Street.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
1858 British School designed by David Davies of Llanelli, enlarged 1887 by George Morgan for Kidwelly School Board. Original school had boys' entry through front porch, girls' entry through porch in end-wall of rear schoolteacher's house, and one large schoolroom within with small classroom at left end. Schoolteacher's house was part of 1858 design.
Exterior
Squared rubble stone with yellow brick dressings and slate roofs. Single storey. Yellow brick stacks on roof slope to right and on W gable slope. Original building has limestone plinth, W end quoins and coping to shouldered gable. One W window, and four identical windows in S wall with porch between first and second windows. Limestone sills. In 1887 the third window was replaced by a large gable with two tall windows and a cross-wing was added across right end. Porch has coped shouldered gable, yellow-brick Tudor-arched front and grey limestone sides. Ledged door. Original windows have yellow-brick surrounds, cambered heads, 3-light mullion-and-transom glazing with unusual large diamond panes. 1887 window has two very tall cambered-headed small-paned windows with centre mullion and two transoms. Plain bargeboards to gable. Yellow-brick surrounds. Cross-wing has yellow-brick quoins, door with slate pent hood in angle, and triple cambered-headed windows in gable, the centre one larger. Bargeboards to gable. Two-window E wall with side-wall stack.
To rear, facing Bailey Street, is intergrated 2 storey window schoolhouse with exposed masonary including quions to angle and yellow brick dressings. Altered window frames and door. Rendered gabled end.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed a good example of a mid Victorian school built for the British School movement, in opposition to the church-sponsored National Schools. Of group value with the medieval gatehouse.
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