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
22/10/2001
Date of Amendment
22/10/2001
Name of Property
School Room at Llidiardau including adjoining wall to W
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
On the road side in the centre of the small village, immediately W of the chapel, bound on 3 sides by the cemetery.
History
Mid-Victorian school room, probably built c1860 and as such contemporary with the adjacent chapel and manse.
Exterior
Small mid-Victorian village school room consisting of a simple 2-window rectangular hall. Of rough-dressed slatestone construction with medium-pitched slate roof having plain bargeboards; squat red brick chimney to the R. Two large vertical rectangular windows to the road elevation, rising up to eaves height and with projecting slate sills; iron quarry glazing. Adjoining to the L is a C20 rendered lean-to porch with slated roof; boarded door with steel-framed window to the L.
Adjoining the school room flush to the R and continuing westwards for some 20m is a contemporary or near-contemporary rubble wall. This stands to a height of approximately 1.5m and has crude "cock and hen" coping mainly to east and west. It terminates at its western end at the forecourt of the Llidiardau chapel forecourt.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a mid-Victorian village school room retaining good original character in a prominent road-side location.
Group value with the chapel and manse adjacent.
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