Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
25794
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/10/2001
Date of Amendment
09/10/2001
Name of Property
Allensbank Primary School, Infants
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Gabalfa
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Gabalfa
Easting
317758
Northing
178797
Street Side
Location
On the north eastern side of Gabalfa near Cathays Cemetery.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Built in 1904 and designed by Veall and Sant as a variant of this firm's successful Lansdown Road designs. One of a series of schools built by the Cardiff School Board of which only four have retained their architectural character. This one is designed in "ebullient Jacobethan style" and is largely unaltered externally.
Exterior
The design replicates very closely the upper floor of the Junior block without the central bay. Newbridge sandstone rubble in thin courses, Bath stone dressings, the brick chimney stacks have been removed, and Welsh slate roofs. Single storey block in Flemish-Elizabethan style with large classroom windows. Balanced elevation to the street, four bays, with the outer bays recessed and the central bays with shaped Flemish gables. Each bay has a 4-light window with small panes above the transom and 2 over 2 pane sashes below. The centre windows have moulded tympana and a circular vent above in the gable. Ventilator on the transverse ridge behind. Hipped roofs to the outer bays. Gable with roundel and an additional classroom window on the right return. Rear elevation not seen.
Interior
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Reason for designation
Included for its architectural interest as part of a well designed and almost unaltered late C19 Board School.
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