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
25792
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/10/2001
Date of Amendment
09/10/2001
Name of Property
Allensbank Primary School, Juniors
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Gabalfa
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Gabalfa
Easting
317803
Northing
178793
Street Side
N
Location
On the north eastern side of Gabalfa near Cathays Cemetery.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Built in 1904 and designed by Veall and Sant as a variant of this firm's successful Lansdown Road designs. One of a series of schools built by the Cardiff School Board of which only four have retained their architectural character. This one is designed in "ebullient Jacobethan style" and is largely unaltered externally.
Exterior
Newbridge sandstone rubble in thin courses, Bath stone dressings, Welsh slate roofs with some of the brick chimney stacks removed. Two storey block in Flemish-Elizabethan style with large classroom windows with stone aprons between. Balanced elevation to the street, five bays, with a recession for the first and fifth bays, while bays two and four have shaped Flemish gables. Each bay has a 4-light window on either floor. The ground floor one in the centre bay has wider side mullions giving a 2-light window with side lights; the upper window has stepped lights within an elliptical arch. The upper windows in bays two and four have moulded tympana and a circular vent above in the gable. Most of the windows retain their small panes while the lower lights have 2 over 2 pane sashes. Hipped roofs to bays one and five. The right return elevation has double gables with roundels, the front gable has a small window on either floor; the rear one a 4-light window on either floor as before. The left return has one shaped gable with boys' and girls' entrances with shell hoods and an additional projecting single bay wing with single light windows. Paired brick stack with central opening to this wing, additional stack on rear. Rear elevation not seen.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its architectural interest as part of a well designed and almost unaltered late C19 Board School.
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