5055

 

II  

Designated  

19/06/1990  

19/06/1990  

Dolgellau Primary School  

 

Gwynedd  

Dolgellau  

 

 

272768  

318155  

 

Situated on rising ground immediately to the W of the Council Offices.  

Education  

 

l9l5.  

Single storey school building in a long gabled range with outer wings inclined forward. Snecked rubble masonry with red sandstone dressings. Steeply pitched slate roofs, oversailing eaves, deep verges, bargeboards. Angular stone stacks set on square bases - removed to outer ends. Advanced gabled centre bay, raking gable parapets on kneelers, finial. Large 20 pane mullioned and transomed window, segmental pediment with Welsh motto, centre missing. Two 9 pane mullioned and transomed windows raised into gablets flanking to each side; gable parapets, kneelers 2 transomed single light windows set between. Porches set to angles where outer wings come forward. Parapets with ball finials. Tudor doorways, decorated spandrels below lettering, GENETHOD to porch on left, BECHGYN to right. Radial fanlights over half-glazed inner double doors. Two transomed single light windows to outer wings. 9 pane mullioned end transomed windows to end elevations. Three cross ranges to rear, lateral stacks to that to centre. 3 light transomed windows. Rear yard closed off by outbuildings and screen wall with Tudor archway, crow stepped gables. Retaining wall to front of school, rubble with square piers, contemporary ball pointed railings. Yards to front bounded by rubble walls with piers rising to support ball pointed railings with dogbars.