Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18148
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
31/01/1997
Date of Amendment
31/01/1997
Name of Property
Tregynon School Boundary Wall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Tregynon
Town
Locality
Tregynon
Easting
309498
Northing
298658
Street Side
Location
Located at a junction of 2 minor roads 50m SW of parish church. The wall forms the S and E boundary of the school, and extends W to the front of the School House.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Constructed with the school in 1871 in unreinforced concrete by Henry Hanbury-Tracy as part of the Gregynog Estate. Hanbury-Tracy's use of the material on the Gregynog Estate was intended to demonstrate the economic benefits of building in concrete. The concrete was made from river gravel and crushed brick bonded with cement. It was laid in wet courses directly onto the wall using timber shuttering and finished with a thin skim coat of render.
Exterior
The wall is of rendered concrete with saddleback coping, with large unrendered blank panels in which the use of crushed brick creates gives a reddish hue. On the E side the wall is swept up to gateposts with pyramidal caps. N of this a new gateway allowing vehicular access was inserted late C20.
Interior
Reason for designation
Of special interest for its experimental use of concrete, and for group value with Tregynon School and the School House.
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