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
593
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
13/05/1993
Date of Amendment
30/04/2001
Name of Property
Former Ffynnongroyw School
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Llanasa
Town
Holywell
Locality
Ffynnongroyw
Easting
313514
Northing
382307
Street Side
N
Location
Approximately 200m NW of the parish church, set back behind a walled forecourt on the N side of the main road through Fynnongroyw
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
A British (later Board) school built in 1869-71 by Richard Owens, architect of Liverpool and best-known for his designs for chapels. A large schoolroom was designed with parallel desks, while an integral wing housed a smaller infants' school. The interior was converted to a nursery with a dwelling at the rear in the late C20.
Exterior
A simple Tudor-Gothic style school of snecked rubble, freestone dressings, steep slate roof with banded fish-scale slates, behind coped gables with moulded kneelers. The school has a T-shaped plan, comprising a main range with its gable end facing the street, and a short, former infants' wing set back on the R-hand side. The main range has a spirelet incorporating a vent over the junction of main range and wing, and a stone ridge stack further back. The main range has a doorway in the gable end, replacing a former mullioned window, and with large-pane glazing replacing earlier boarded doors. Its lintel is inscribed 'UNDENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL', while a tablet above it is inscribed 'NONDENOMINATIONAL SCHOOL', both dated 1871. A gabled bellcote to the apex has lost its bell. The R side wall of the main range has a gabled porch with small side windows and a lintel over a boarded door. Beyond it is the infants' wing, which has a stack on the L side and paired sashes with central mullion. Its gable end has a lintelled vent in the gable and a sash window lower R inserted in a heightened original opening.
The L side wall of the main range has 3 pairs of sash windows between central mullions, then further L is a replaced glazed door, an original horned sash window, and 2 small inserted windows and an inserted basement window. The rear gable end has 2 inserted boarded doors to the basement. Behind the wing is an outshut to the main range, to the R of which are paired sash windows below pivoting lights, all under a gablet. Behind the wing, backing on to the outshut, is a flat-roofed projection obscuring an original blocked window.
Interior
The interior has inserted partitions in the main range and wing for a nursery, while the rear of the main range is adapted to a dwelling.
Reason for designation
Listed as a mid to late C19 purpose-built British School retaining early character, and for its association with the development of the industrial village of Ffynnongroyw.
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