Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
83331
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/11/2004
Date of Amendment
25/11/2004
Name of Property
Former chapel schoolroom
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Blaenrheidol
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Ponterwyd
Easting
274910
Northing
280851
Street Side
N
Location
Situated on N side of A44, on corner of lane running up E side of Rheidol to Ponterwyd Chapel.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Schoolroom, now chapel hall, built 1860 as British School for Ponterwyd Methodist chapel.
Exterior
Former school, now hall, rubble stone with slate eaves roof. Single storey with three arched windows on S side, to main road, and W end rubble stone gabled porch. S side windows have stone voussoirs, slate sills and small-paned tracery with Georgian Gothic-style intersecting bars in head. Porch has board door and overlight. W gable has arched recess with stone voussoirs for missing plaque. Roof overhangs at gables with C20 verge boards, similar boards to porch.
Interior
Interior not available for inspection.
Reason for designation
Included as a small schoolroom in late Georgian style, a good example of the nonconformist schools that preceded the Board Schools of the 1870s.
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