Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
12001
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/03/1963
Date of Amendment
13/11/1997
Name of Property
The Old School
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Nolton and Roch
Town
Haverfordwest
Locality
Nolton
Easting
186704
Northing
218156
Street Side
Location
Situated in corner of Nolton churchyard, fronting directly on road.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Early C19 Church School built by the Rev. Moses Grant, vicar from 1767 to 1810. Said to be dated 1810. Plan of 1876 by T.P. Reynolds of Haverfordwest, minor alterations in the 1890s by D.E. Thomas of Haverfordwest. The schoolroom was on the upper floor and 2 rooms for the master on the ground floor.
Exterior
Church school, rubble-stone with slate roof and red terracotta ridges. Two storeys, two pointed Gothic windows with glazing bars to schoolroom on upper floor and centre pair of late C19 8-pane sashes. Ground floor has two windows boarded over but said to be sashes each side of door. Cambered heads, stone voussoirs and keystones. Blocked door in right gable end. Left end addition, set slightly back and with lower roof. One similar first floor pointed window. Larger small-paned pointed window in W end wall and door to ground floor right with slab lintel. Rear N side of addition is windowless. Rear of main range has one eaves-breaking pointed window under slate-roofed gable, blocked pointed first floor window to right and long blocked opening to left.
Interior
Reason for designation
Of regional importance in the history of education as an early school building. Group value with the parish church.
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