Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
14956
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1991
Date of Amendment
22/10/2001
Name of Property
Llanycil Cottage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanycil
Town
Bala
Locality
Llanycil
Easting
291386
Northing
334907
Street Side
NW
Location
Facing NE on a triangular site at the junction between the main road, along the shore of Bala Lake, and the by-road to Parc; set back behind a rubble walled forecourt.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Dated 1838; built as a Church Schoolroom and Schoolmaster's House and capable of taking 50 to 60 children. The 1847 Education Report indicates that the school did not flourish and had closed after only a few years.
Exterior
Small one-and-a-half storeyed former schoolhouse in simple Tudor style; of rubble construction with renewed slate roof and overhanging, boarded eaves. Distinctive hexagonal stone chimney to centre with cornice and square base. Symmetrical 2 window front with gabled porch to centre. This has an inscribed, segmentally-arched, timber panel over the entrance; square headed openings to sides and seats within; boarded double doors. Flanking 3-light metal frame casement windows with diamond-paned metal-frame glazing over high transoms; slate lintels with stopped labels. Similar window to left hand gable end and another to 2 window rear; eaves raised in two places at rear to accommodate modern dormers. Plain 3 light window to right hand gable end where boundary wall steps up; attached monopitch-roofed outhouse.
Interior
Simple interior with triangular-shaped lobby created by diagonally placed doorways; schoolmaster's house to left and schoolroom to right, with fireplaces to central dividing wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 school of well-preserved picturesque Tudor Gothic character.
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