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
23/12/2004
Date of Amendment
23/12/2004
Name of Property
Ysgoldy y Banc
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Location
Situated some 2 km E of Ysbyty Ystwyth, next to Pantyffynnon.
History
Small schoolhouse built in 1868, probably associated with the lead-mining community.
Exterior
Former school, rubble stone with slate eaves roof. Single storey. Front has plaque 'Ysgoldy y Banc 1868' in gable and narrow door with overlight and yellow brick head. Sides each have two elongated twelve-pane horned sash windows with C20 external shutters, and S end has one. Brick heads, slate sills. Roof of small slates.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare surviving example of a simple rural school-room, in the context of a scattered lead mining settlement now largely lost.
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