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
80737
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/12/2002
Date of Amendment
06/12/2002
Name of Property
Bodelwyddan Village Hall (former School)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Bodelwyddan
Town
Locality
The Village
Easting
300249
Northing
375527
Street Side
Location
In Bodelwyddan Village, opposite the Vicarage.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
A large village school probably by the same architect as St Margaret''''s Church, John Gibson. Around the main entrance is an inscription in decorative lettering ''''''''Erected by Margaret Willoughby de Broke AD MDCCCLVII'''''''' with mottoes ''''''''Fear the Lord'''''''' and ''''''''Honour the Queen''''''''. The school was endowed with a fund of £1666.13.4d (£1,666.66) invested at 3%, but the endowment lapsed when the school came under LEA control, following which the fund was applied instead to church expenses.
The building ceased as a school in c1980 and is now the village hall.
Exterior
A school building in simplified Tudor style, consisting of a main N/S schoolrooms range facing E to the village street and set back behind a playground, with the head teacher''''s house to the S and the assistant teacher''''s house to the N.
The building is in axe-dressed local limestone laid in informal coursing, with better snecked masonry in the 2 houses. Roof of slates in regular courses with a tile ridge. The composition is symmetrical, with a central porch slightly advancing and rising to a coped gable with corbelled kneelers. This is the same height as the main range and there is a simple octagonal central flèche where the 2 roofs join. The main entrance has a Tudor 4-centred arch and the Bodelwyddan arms in a panel above, and slit ventilator to the roof. It is flanked by 2 3-light schoolroom windows each side with flat lintels. Around the entrance is an inscription and date, with the arms of the Williams family over.
The end-pavilions of the composition are the slightly advancing gable ends of the 2 houses; these are each 3-window 2-storey houses facing S and N. Each has a small porch in stone with a coped gable. Hornless sash windows with 8 panes, arranged as 4 upright panes per sash. Large stone chimney where the house abuts the schoolrooms range. Roof-lights at rear. The E elevation has a bay window with slate roof and a sash window of 8 panes similar to those at front above. Similar upper window at W. Slit ventilator to the roof at E and W.
Central gable at rear also, much extended.
Interior
Reason for designation
A fine village school building of symmetrical composition built as an integral part of a well preserved estate village.
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