Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
13431
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/04/1989
Date of Amendment
26/04/2002
Name of Property
Former National School and School-house
Address
2 Lewis Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Community
Llandough
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Llandough
Easting
316746
Northing
173148
Street Side
S
Location
Situated on a corner, the former school fronting Penlan Road and the schoolhouse fronting Lewis Road
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Early C19. Original list description of 1989 refers to whitewash and render finish to school. Shown as two separate units on the 1841 Tithe Map, school house and cottage.
Exterior
Former school and attached school-house now a single dwelling. Built of coursed limestone on a plinth with brick dressings to school windows and Welsh slate roof; centre brick ridge stack to school, end stack to house. Plan of single storey school with central fireplace and 2-storey house cross wing. Two 20-pane sash windows with cambered heads to school frontage; blocked square-headed window under wide voussoirs to gable end. Stepped back is the house wing which has a doorway with boarded door under cambered voussoirs and a single 12-pane casement window to each floor, cambered voussoirs to ground floor.
Interior
Interior retains flag floors. Wide black fireplace in main former school room with narrow wood stairs rising adjacent, parallel with the wall; boarding encasing stairs is visible in corner of living room of house; boarded doors.
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare survivor in Glamorgan of a local school building and school-house from the early C19.
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