Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3596
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/02/1993
Date of Amendment
19/02/1993
Name of Property
Old School
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanrwst
Town
Locality
Easting
280218
Northing
361408
Street Side
Location
Facing roughly E on corner with Y Berllan.
Description
Broad Class
Education
Period
History
Original plans in County Record Office, Ruthin dated 1844; built 1846. Architect Henry Kennedy.
Exterior
Jacobethan style school. Central block with crosswings, formerly housing schoolrooms for 120 girls and 120 boys, with classroom between. Squared rubble with freestone dressings. Slate roofs; two octagonal chimneys with oversailing upper courses (cylindrical chimney to rear); stone gutters. Central block has steps up to open entrance loggia with central Tudor arch flanked by lower similar arches. Behind arches, central Tudor doorway (to former classroom) flanked by two-light early C16 style windows; Tudor doorway to each loggia return (to former schoolrooms).
Gabled crosswings with copings and kneelers have cruciform loops to apexes, and windows with three-light early C16 style windows. End elevations have central steeply gabled bay set slightly forward with apex loop and three-light window as front; outer bays each have two-light window in same style. To rear, N wing W gable has three-light early C16 style window. Single-storey lean-to infill between wings (in poor condition at time of inspection). South wing extended to W (date) with single-storey gabled S porch; simplified detailing; paired sash windows with deep lintels; octagonal stone chimney in roof slope above porch.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with neighbouring Old School House.
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