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
3597
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/02/1993  
Date of Amendment
19/02/1993  
Name of Property
Old School House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Llanrwst  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
280211  
Northing
361383  
Street Side
 
Location
To L of Old School. Entrance front faces Old School (roughly N).  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
One and a half storey house in Jacobean style. Original plans in County Record Office, Ruthin dated 1844; built 1846. Architect Henry Kennedy.  

Exterior
Squared rubble with freestone dressings (painted); steeply-pitched slate roof; coped gables with kneelers. Central stone chimney with crenellations, similar chimney at W gable. Entrance elevation faces school. Below cornice, tiny central round-headed attic window with, to each side, small semi-hexagonal oriel window with head aligned with cornice and tiny splayed stone roof above. Central gabled porch with Gothic doorway, and door; small windows to porch sides. To each side of porch, two-light mullioned and transomed window with shallow cornice. Elevation facing road has coped gable with kneelers, two-light round-headed window on first floor; three-light mullioned and transomed window with shallow cornice to ground floor. At rear gable end has projecting stepped chimney. To W, single storey lean-to and modern attached garage. Brick entrances to former air-raid shelters in basements.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Group value with neighbouring school.  

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