Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16329
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/08/1995
Date of Amendment
21/08/1995
Name of Property
Former School
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Berriew
Town
Locality
Berriew
Easting
318825
Northing
300818
Street Side
Location
Backs onto the E side of the churchyard in the centre of the village.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
A school in Berriew was first established through an endowment by Humphrey Jones of Garthmyl in 1653, and the first building erected in 1655. A new school house was erected by public subscription in 1756, but rebuilt in 1819. The school achieved notoriety for a dispute over the introduction of non-denominational secondary education, when an Order in Council confirming this in 1894 was reversed by the Berriew School Act of 1897. The school rooms are now used as a community centre.
Exterior
Roughly coursed and squared stone with slate roof and axial brick stacks. 2-storeyed, symmetrically designed with advanced outer wings and a 2-window range between them. Former school (now community centre) occupies right-hand wing, the rest is the Old School House. This has doorway in ashlar porch alongside its left hand wing, with 4-centred archway with hood mould and traceried overlight to door. 2-light casement window with transom window alongside the porch in painted stone architrave, with curved upper lights. Similarly detailed casement windows above and in gable of wing, which has small attic window, moulded kneelers to copings, and finial. Right hand wing has former school entrance in segmental archway on inner side, and mullioned windows with round-headed lights (4 to ground floor, 2 above) in gable end. Inscription plate recording the history of the school in the gable apex. Recent additions against the right hand return themselves replace earlier extensions to the school accommodation. Rear elevation to churchyard has single window on each floor in gabled wing, and 3 window range to school house: all windows are 2-light mullions in chamfered painted stone architraves, with arched heads to lights.
Interior
Reason for designation
A good example of an early C19 school building, which forms a significant component in an exceptional conservation area.
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