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
23428
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
Ysgol Llandygai & School House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bangor
Locality
Llandygai
Easting
260021
Northing
370916
Street Side
Location
Situated in centre of village to south-west of church; school has playground to front and front garden of School House is boarded by substantial rubblestone block wall with regularly spaced buttresses running down lane towards the road to Tal-y-bont.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Built in 1843 at the expense of the Penrhyn Estate as village school (for boys) and attached schoolmaster's house. Large late C20 extension to school building.
Exterior
School and attached schoolmaster's house in Perpendicular Gothic style forming basic L-plan. Tooled Anglesey limestone ashlar with plain chamfered plinth; slate roofs with simply moulded coped verges and plain kneelers. Front wall of school has 3 tall mullioned and transomed windows in 3-lights with hollow spandrels to each tier of 4-centred lights, vestigial leaded latticed glazing (some has been replaced by plain glass) and dripstones; identical window to right gable end. To left of the 3 mullioned and transomed windows in the front wall is the slightly projecting right gable end of the school house with square-headed 3-light mullion window to upper level and small lancet above to apex, both with drips; attached to the ground floor is a flat-roofed section with small 4-centred window to left and pointed doorway with hoodmould and boarded door to right; blank inscription panel above. Front wall of school house has small gable to left above eaves with small 3-light mullioned and transomed window directly below, immediately underneath which is a 3-light mullioned and transomed window to left of gabled porch (verges and kneelers as to roofs) with pointed chamfered outer doorway, above which is a small 2-light mullioned window; to the right of the porch a large 3-light mullioned and transomed window extends virtually the whole height of the wall; unusual ridge stack in form of large octagonal turret. All windows on the school house have the same details as on the school. Superscribed date "AD 1843" to porch.
Interior
Interior not accessible at time of Survey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved mid-C19 school and attached schoolmaster's house, forming a significant element in the social and architectural history of this important planned estate village.
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