3624

 

II  

Designated  

19/02/1993  

19/02/1993  

Infants' School  

 

Conwy  

Llanrwst  

 

Llanrwst  

280022  

361544  

 

At junction of Watling Street and Glanrhyd, to rear of Junior School. Set in schoolyard with stone wall with cast iron gates and railings.  

Education  

 

1896-97 by Grierson and Bellis, architects of Bangor. Illustrated with minor differences of detail in Building News, June 26 1896.  

Free Northern Renaissance style; rubble with pale freestone dressings, slate roofs. On plinth with string course below windows. Small pane casement glazing. Entrance front faces roughly NW. Two gables; larger R gable has tall plus lower small pane window with shaped pediments, truncated red brick chimney at apex; lower L gable has two windows. Between gables, infants entrance porch, freestone doorcase consisting of squat columns on plinths, columns support Mannerist hyperbolic pediment flanked by finials, square window to R return. Right elevation has to R, large gable with three windows STS and narrow door to L with tall architrave and overlight. To L, smaller gable with tall window, and to R narrow door with overlight; narrow window to R. To L of this gable, smaller square-headed window. Left elevation has to L, large shaped gable; in block to R, two broad dormers under raking roofs. Rear elevation has to R, shaped gable with two small pane windows in architraves with shaped pediments, smaller square-headed window to L.  

 

Included as part of good representative group of Junior and Infants' Schools and Master's house. Group value.