Old Board School at Llawrybettws is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 October 1966. School hall. 1 related planning application.
Old Board School at Llawrybettws
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-courtyard-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1966
- Type
- School hall
- Address
- Old Board School at Llawrybettws, Glan-Yr-Afon, Bala, Llandderfel, LL21 0HB
- OS grid reference
- SJ 024 425
- Coordinates
- 52.97113, -3.45415
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Board School at Llawrybettws is a tall, single-storeyed rectangular former school hall. It is built from local rubble, originally rendered, and features an old slate roof with a tiled ridge. The building has plain bargeboards and projecting verges on the right gable, along with modern wire netting. Each side of the building has three segmentally-arched windows with projecting sills and rough-dressed voussoirs, adorned with labels made of narrow stones in the local style. The right gable end includes a shallow projecting chimney with a reduced stack and a segmentally-arched, deeply-recessed entrance on the left. There is also a single arched window on the left gable, similar to the others. At the time of the survey, all openings were boarded up.
Although the interior was not inspected during the survey, it is noted to have a King Post and tie beam roof.
Local climate
Old Board School at Llawrybettws sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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