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.
Date of Designation
17/03/1999
Date of Amendment
17/03/1999
Name of Property
Ty'r Ysgol
Location
Ty'r Ysgol adjoins the E end of the former village school below and approximately 30m SE of the Church of St Digain, and is entered through a gateway leading from the school yard on the W side.
History
Former village school probably built in 1852. Schoolhouse appears to be of a later C19 date.
Exterior
One-and-a-half storey Domestic Revival schoolhouse adjoining former village school, T-shaped on plan with principal range on E side aligned at right-angles to the school building. Built of colourwashed rendered masonry with gabled slate roofs. Rectangular sandstone ashlar chimney stacks with widely chamfered quoins terminating in splayed stops at base. Four-light timber mullioned and transomed windows with subdivided casements and cambered heads to ground floor. First floor has double casement windows in camber-headed openings set within gables and gabled half dormers. Single storey rendered porch at internal angle of S and W elevation with hipped slate roof boarded front door and 4-pane side window.
Interior
Interior not accessible for inspection at time of resurvey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed Domestic Revival building, which forms part of a group with the Church of St Digain and the former village school.
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