Ysgol Trelawnyd

Ysgol Trelawnyd is a Gothic style asymmetrical school building constructed in rubble stone with Bath stone dressings and a steep slate roof. The roof incorporates a band of slates laid in a lozenge pattern, behind coped gables on moulded kneelers enriched by blind trefoils in gablets.

The building comprises an original single-storey school room on the left and a 2-storey school house on the right, separated by a central coped gable with a tall stack at the rear. The school house has a slightly lower ridge line. The arched windows throughout have hood moulds with round stops, though most windows have been replaced in their original openings. The front faces south, with the original schoolroom featuring low angle buttresses and the school house having clasping buttresses.

Doorways to both the schoolroom and house are offset to the right of centre on either side of the central gable, positioned within a canopy under an outshut roof. The canopy is supported by a single central fluted cast iron column. Both doorways have nook shafts and 2-centred arches with filleted roll mouldings, with boarded doors featuring flowing strap hinges. The doorways are flanked by small square-headed windows. Above the right-hand doorway is a window of three cusped lights lighting the school house stairs, positioned beneath a pyramidal roof with apex weathervane.

The schoolroom is accented by a projecting lower gabled bay containing a pair of 2-light geometrical windows with plate tracery, separated by a buttress carrying the gable bellcote. The bellcote is constructed in ashlar with a coped gable, moulded string course above corbels at the base, and a segmental pointed arch with hood mould continuous with a string course. The bell has been removed. On the left side of the gabled bay is a stone stack rising from the eaves of the main range, with further left two cusped lights above an added flat-roofed boiler room. The schoolroom is principally lit by a large 3-light geometrical window with plate tracery in the gable end.

On the right side of the entrance, the house has a projecting 2-storey gabled bay. The lower storey contains a 3-light mullioned window with shouldered lintel and hood mould, above which is a window of two cusped lights under a pointed hood mould with a blank shield in the tympanum. In the right side wall of the projecting bay is a canted 2-light bay window with cusped lights under a stone slab roof. Brought forward to its right is the gable end of the main range, which has a stone stack on its left side. The upper storey has a 2-light mullioned window; the lower storey has a similar 2-light window offset to the left, a boarded door under a segmental head to the right, and a small window in a shallow integral rear lean-to.

Against the rear of the main range is a single-storey parallel gabled wing, with a higher wing at the west end at right angles behind the schoolroom. In its upper storey, the rear of the school house has a tall stone eaves stack left of centre, to the right of which are a single and a 2-light window beneath a gablet. The rear wing behind the schoolroom is continuous with the gable end of the main range and has a link to an added late 20th-century block set well back from the original building. Behind the link, the wing has a 2-light mullioned window. The gable end of the wing has a large brick segmental-headed window facing the rear.

The original school room retains a 4-bay king-post roof with octagonal posts below the level of raking struts. The original school house retains an open-well stair with plain balusters and square newels with gablets to pyramidal caps.