Youth Hostel, Mochrum

The Youth Hostel in Mochrum is a single-storey building that dates from after 1872 and was formerly a school. It features an asymmetrical design with gabled roofs and is constructed of washed rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings, including margins, hoodmoulds, and quoin strips. All openings are hoodmoulded, and the door has a chamfered margin.

On the west elevation, the gable is positioned to the right, with a tall doorway on the left that has a boarded door and a deep four-pane fanlight. There is a window to the right of the door, and several granite steps lead up to it. The gable is recessed to the left, featuring a bipartite window at the center.

The south elevation, facing the road, has a slightly advanced gable to the right with a bipartite window at the center and a glazed oculus in the gablehead. There is also a bipartite window to the left.

On the east elevation, the gable is advanced to the right, creating an L-plan. It has a bipartite window at the center of the gable, with two additional windows to the left, the far left window being higher. There is a bipartite window on the south return.

The north elevation features bipartite windows at the center and to the right, while a modern flat-roofed extension is attached to the left. The building has multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with 24-pane glazing in single light windows and mainly 18-pane lights in the bipartite windows. The red sandstone coped skews and moulded skewends are complemented by roll-detail at the apices of the gableheads. There are stacks with red sandstone quoin strips and copes, a gablehead to the south, and a ridge running north-south. The roof is covered with slightly graded grey slates and features red sandstone ridging, axial ventilators, and moulded eaves guttering. The south side has rubble coped walls.