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
23537
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/07/2000
Date of Amendment
19/07/2000
Name of Property
Former school including schoolmaster's house
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Ilston
Town
Swansea
Locality
Parkmill
Easting
255089
Northing
189131
Street Side
N
Location
At east end of Parkmill village, 100m west of the Gower Inn. Large playground to north and west, the schoolmaster's garden to the south and east. Stone boundary wall to front.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Built in 1876 to the design of J H Baylis of Swansea, architect, for Thomas Penrice of Kilvrough. The building is now an activity centre belonging to the West Glamorgan Guides. The date and Penrice arms appear over the entrance.
Exterior
A school in C19 Elizabethan style, according with the architecturally strong character of the Kilvrough estate buildings. The main school part ranges east-west, with a large south-projecting wing and the entrance in the angle; the entrance is emphasised by an ashlar spire above. Local limestone, rock-faced in snecked courses; Bath stone dressings; steeply pitched slate roofs with bronze gable finials. A slightly lower block in tandem at the east is the schoolmaster's house, with a north wing.
The west and south gables and the main south wall have four-light mullion and transom stone windows with Tudor heads to the lights and label moulds. Small quatrefoil openings above, coped gables with finials and moulded kneelers, stone quoins. Larger mullion and transom windows in the north elevation without ornamentation. The spire is octagonal, overhanging an octagonal base pierced by lancet openings which rises on broaches from a square porch. It has a bronze finial. Tudor arched doorways to south and west.
The schoolmaster's house to the east side has dormer windows to east, south and west with carved bargeboards; a canted sided bay window to the south and mullion and transom windows. Timber framed porch on stone plinth walls.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for special architectural interest as a large former school and schoolmaster's house which have retained their strong Victorian Tudor character
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