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Old School House

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanrwst, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1361 / 53°8'9"N

Longitude: -3.7921 / 3°47'31"W

OS Eastings: 280211

OS Northings: 361383

OS Grid: SH802613

Mapcode National: GBR 64.6HB5

Mapcode Global: WH65X.QFGN

Plus Code: 9C5R46P5+C5

Entry Name: Old School House

Listing Date: 19 February 1993

Last Amended: 19 February 1993

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3597

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300003597

Location: To L of Old School. Entrance front faces Old School (roughly N).

County: Conwy

Community: Llanrwst

Community: Llanrwst

Built-Up Area: Llanrwst

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

One and a half storey house in Jacobean style. Original plans in County Record Office, Ruthin dated 1844; built 1846. Architect Henry Kennedy.

Exterior

Squared rubble with freestone dressings (painted); steeply-pitched slate roof; coped gables with kneelers. Central stone chimney with crenellations, similar chimney at W gable. Entrance elevation faces school. Below cornice, tiny central round-headed attic window with, to each side, small semi-hexagonal oriel window with head aligned with cornice and tiny splayed stone roof above. Central gabled porch with Gothic doorway, and door; small windows to porch sides. To each side of porch, two-light mullioned and transomed window with shallow cornice. Elevation facing road has coped gable with kneelers, two-light round-headed window on first floor; three-light mullioned and transomed window with shallow cornice to ground floor. At rear gable end has projecting stepped chimney. To W, single storey lean-to and modern attached garage.
Brick entrances to former air-raid shelters in basements.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with neighbouring school.

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