The Old School is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 February 1974. School.
The Old School
- WRENN ID
- watchful-bracket-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1974
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron
- OS grid reference
- SH 119 215
- Coordinates
- 52.75904, -4.78808
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old School is a single-storey schoolroom built from rubble stone, featuring a slate gabled roof and a stone stack at the north end. The west front has three 16-pane sash windows, while the south end is pebbledashed and includes one renewed 16-pane window. The north end features a brick porch with rubble stone crenellation and an arched ledged door facing west.
Inside, the building has a three-bay roof with collar-trusses and a small plank partition near the northeast door. There is also a platform at the south end.
Local climate
The Old School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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