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
25793
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/10/2001
Date of Amendment
09/10/2001
Name of Property
School House at Allensbank Primary School
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Gabalfa
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Gabalfa
Easting
317731
Northing
178795
Street Side
N
Location
On the north eastern side of Gabalfa near Cathays Cemetery.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
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 walls in courses with Bath stone dressings and Welsh slate roof with ridge tiles and red brick chimneys. Two storey cottage with gable end to street. This has a canted bay below and a 3-light stone mullioned window above, modern plastic windows. Slit vent in the shaped gable above. Steeply pitched roof with two chimneys. Small windows in the long side elevation, most of which are the original sashes with small panes above 2-panes. The ground floor has three single light windows and a paired sash in a hipped roof projection. The upper floor has a single (plastic), a paired and a triple sash and a roundel. 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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