Latitude: 51.6517 / 51°39'6"N
Longitude: -3.1686 / 3°10'7"W
OS Eastings: 319247
OS Northings: 195418
OS Grid: ST192954
Mapcode National: GBR HY.73PP
Mapcode Global: VH6DG.1R74
Plus Code: 9C3RMR2J+MH
Entry Name: Former School Room, New Bethel, and attached wall
Listing Date: 15 February 1980
Last Amended: 17 March 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 1887
Building Class: Education
ID on this website: 300001887
Location: On the steep lane, the boundary between Newbridge and Pontllanfraith communities, ascending from the valley to Mynyddiswlyn; opposite New Bethel Chapel.
County: Caerphilly
Community: Newbridge (Trecelyn)
Community: Newbridge
Locality: Mynyddislwyn
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: School building
Inscription Islwyn School Erected 1847. New Bethel Chapel opposite built 1765, rebuilt 1855. New Bethel founded as an Independent Chapel by Thomas Waters of Pant yr Esk, meetings first held at a house near Church Farm near Mynyddislwyn church. Schoolroom built under Revd Moses Ellis in 1847. Original list description dates school as 1817, a mis-reading of the inscription, as building does not appear on the Tithe Map of 1846 and histories confirm date of 1847. Appears on Ordnance Survey First Edition Map 1886 as 'Islwyn School (Boys and Girls)'. In 1920s school was rented by Monmouthshire Education Committee as a Day School. Converted to house since original list description, when windows were described as a mix of sash and casement with small and larger panes, with yellow brick stacks to the roof. Interior formerly a hall with stage and smaller room with grate.
Single storey former Nonconformist school. Stone walls with some yellow brick dressings; slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, half-hipped at SW end. Stone rubble in snecked courses. Six window front, with porch to SW of centre and with the three windows to SW more closely spaced; all windows 10/10 pane casements with stone sills. Gabled porch with doorway and moulded 6-panel door; now barely legible stone plaque over doorway inscribed "Islwyn School Erected 1847". At NE end, an adjoining and smaller single storey outbuilding with stone walls and slate roof. Ground in front (NW) of front elevation set high above road and enclosed by stone rubble boundary retaining wall with rounded stone coping extending to N as far as chapel house with flight of stone and brick steps ascending between stone walls to school; iron railings. To SW boundary wall descends in height as ground rises. Rooflight to front elevation.
Converted to dwelling.
Included although altered as an uncommon surviving early-mid C19 school and for group value with chapel, churchyard monuments and railings at New Bethel Chapel opposite in Pontllanfraith Community.
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