Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
23463
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/05/2000
Date of Amendment
24/05/2000
Name of Property
The Old School House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llandygai
Town
Bangor
Locality
Llandygai
Easting
260052
Northing
371018
Street Side
Location
Situated directly to the north of the Church of St Tegai with the wall to Penrhyn Park to the north; separated from the churchyard by the railings running along the northern side of its yew-lined avenue; the Old School House has garden to front.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1813 at expense of the Penrhyn Estate as school for village girls with attached schoolmistress's cottage, one of the first buildings provided for public benefit in the estate village of Llandygai.
Exterior
Cottage has gabled brick porch with pointed outer doorway and inner half-glazed door linked to lean-to in angle with school; 3-light mullioned and transomed window detailed as those on school to front of lean-to; C20 flat-roofed dormer breaking eaves directly above lean-to with rebuilt integral end stack to left and ridge stack on right. Single-storey hip-roofed outbuilding at right-angles to rear.
Interior
Not inspected at time of the Resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved early C19 school and attached schoolmistres's cottage of Picturesque style, forming a primary element in the social and architectural history of this important planned estate village; good group with the adjoining parish church and boundary railings.
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