Ysgol Gynradd Beaumaris Primary School including attached range to right

Beaumaris Primary School is a large-scale, purpose-built modernist primary school and nursery designed as an ambitious and progressive essay in primary education in the immediate post-war period. The building features concrete walls that are pebble-dashed and painted cream, with large steel-framed casement windows and concrete slab roofs with a very slight single pitch. A central 2-storey brick tower houses the offices.

The school is asymmetrically planned with east-west classroom wings either side of an east-west linking corridor behind the entrance foyer, a layout designed to provide well-lit classrooms on a sloping site. Each wing has a rear corridor providing access to the rooms. The assembly hall, dining room and nursery are contained within a separate range on the north-east side of the front.

The central entrance to the double-height foyer is under a flat canopy and has a brick surround to recessed replacement doors with small-pane glazed flanking panels. To its left is the 2-storey office, with a stack on the right side, to the left of which is a foundation and a 50th memorial tablet. Facing the front, the office has 5-light windows in each storey.

On the left (south) side of the entrance is an 18-bay classroom wing, with projecting eaves under diagonal uprights. The 5th bay has half-lit doors, and the 12th bay has an entrance with a steel shutter. The corridor behind the wing projects at the end, where there are double doors with porthole glazing, and a porthole window in the end wall. Immediately behind the end of the corridor is a higher cloakroom with high-set windows. The corridor is lit by a continuous band of fenestration, above which a similar narrow band lights the rear of the classrooms.

The central east-west corridor link has a continuous band of windows and is stepped up twice on the sloping ground. On the left (south) side is a classroom wing of 8 bays defined by projecting eaves and diagonal uprights, incorporating double doors in the 4th bay. The main entrance is in the projecting rear corridor, which has double doors with porthole glazing, and a porthole window in the end wall. The rear of the corridor and classroom have windows forming continuous bands.

On the right (north) side of the corridor link are double replacement doors and a short 6-window classroom wing, with a recessed cloakroom door in the end wall. Its rear corridor has a canopy over the main entrance, which has doors with porthole glazing, 5 windows to the right, and a large porthole window in the left end of the corridor. Behind is another, 7-window, classroom wing at the end of the corridor. It has a 5-window cloakroom at the end, the entrance to which is a recessed door in the end wall. The rear corridor has a canopied entrance to doors with porthole glazing, 6 windows to the right and a large porthole window in the end wall of the corridor.

On the right side of the main entrance, slightly splayed forward, is a long asymmetrical range, higher than the classroom wings, of 3 main components and the entrance foyer. To the right of the entrance, the double-height assembly hall has a band of eight 3-light windows and 6 smaller 2-light windows at the upper level. The stage is contained within a slightly lower projection at the right end, which has 4 high-set windows in its return elevation. Set back further right is the 4-window dining hall with large windows under the eaves. Next right, slightly higher and brought forward, is a 4-bay nursery with deeply projecting eaves on diagonal uprights, with large windows. In its right-hand return elevation are double half-lit doors opening to the play area. Set back further right are lower cloakrooms and administration rooms. The main entrance is in the return elevation, under a canopy. The rear of the hall, dining room and nursery also have corridors with bands of glazing. Behind the dining room are a lower kitchen, with a lower caretaker's store behind it.

The main entrance opens into a foyer, which is top-lit by 2 round lanterns. On the left side are the offices and an open-well stair. On the right of the foyer are double half-lit doors to the assembly hall, which has exposed steel latticework roof beams. Interconnected corridors behind the hall, dining room and classroom wings retain original thermoplastic tile floors.