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
27/08/1999
Date of Amendment
27/08/1999
Name of Property
Sunday School/Vestry at Capel Tan-y-coed
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
Located directly to the south-west of the chapel with gable end to road, in the same low rubble-walled enclosure, returning at right-angles to follow track running off road; rough square piers with decorative iron gate aligned on entrance.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
Built in 1901 as the Sunday School/Vestry to the adjoining contemporary chapel.
Exterior
Sunday School/Vestry. Simple rectangular plan with gable end entrance facing road. Rendered rubblestone; slate roof with plain bargeboards. Entrance gable end has tall round-headed windows with very simple Y-tracery flanking gabled porch, which has similar but shorter twinned windows directly above; porch has outer boarded door with plain Y-traceried fanlight and small 4-paned windows to sides. Return wall to track has four 12-paned sashes, all windows with painted slate cills. Narrow red brick stack to rear.
Interior
Roof in 4 bays with iron trusses and boarded ceiling; retains original folding benches with iron legs.
Reason for designation
Included as an essentially unaltered early C20 Sunday School/Vestry forming a good group with its directly adjoining contemporary chapel and the former Post Office and attached late C19 terrace immediately to the south-west.
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