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
5055
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/06/1990  
Date of Amendment
19/06/1990  
Name of Property
Dolgellau Primary School  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Dolgellau  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
272768  
Northing
318155  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated on rising ground immediately to the W of the Council Offices.  

Description


Broad Class
Education  
Period
 

History
l9l5.  

Exterior
Single storey school building in a long gabled range with outer wings inclined forward. Snecked rubble masonry with red sandstone dressings. Steeply pitched slate roofs, oversailing eaves, deep verges, bargeboards. Angular stone stacks set on square bases - removed to outer ends. Advanced gabled centre bay, raking gable parapets on kneelers, finial. Large 20 pane mullioned and transomed window, segmental pediment with Welsh motto, centre missing. Two 9 pane mullioned and transomed windows raised into gablets flanking to each side; gable parapets, kneelers 2 transomed single light windows set between. Porches set to angles where outer wings come forward. Parapets with ball finials. Tudor doorways, decorated spandrels below lettering, GENETHOD to porch on left, BECHGYN to right. Radial fanlights over half-glazed inner double doors. Two transomed single light windows to outer wings. 9 pane mullioned end transomed windows to end elevations. Three cross ranges to rear, lateral stacks to that to centre. 3 light transomed windows. Rear yard closed off by outbuildings and screen wall with Tudor archway, crow stepped gables. Retaining wall to front of school, rubble with square piers, contemporary ball pointed railings. Yards to front bounded by rubble walls with piers rising to support ball pointed railings with dogbars.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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