Ysgol Maesydre

Ysgol Maesydre is a school built in a Baroque Revival style. The building is constructed of red brick with a tiled roof and sandstone dressings, including cill courses, kneelers and cappings. It has timber windows with modillion eaves.

The building's main central hall range is tall, two stories high, with lower, single-story ranges clustered on either side creating a balanced, asymmetrical composition. A projecting wing at the north (front) of the main range features a Dutch-style gable and a large, Diocletian-style window with a grid of glazing. The window has intermittent projecting stone voussoirs and a roundel with banded stonework and a scrolled pediment topped with a ball finial. Below the window is a canted bay with a flat roof behind a parapet. The original stone mullioned window has been deepened by the addition of a timber mullioned window set below a very shallow curved pediment to the parapet; there are further windows to the angles. Square projections with mullion windows are located to the sides of the hall wing, with additional windows set back below the eaves. A cupola rises from the ridge of the roof. To either side of the central hall wing are lower, gabled bays projecting from the deep roof, each with tiered sash windows of 12 and 18 lights.

Lower, single-story ranges project from either side of the main two-story range. The range to the left is a twin-gabled building with a double-pile range to the rear that is offset outwards. A flat-roofed single-story extension from 1955 is attached to the plain end gable. The right-hand range comprises a single bay with a tiered window in the gable and a rear range with a ridge cupola offset outwards.

The rear elevation of the main hall range is partly obscured by a 1955 sports hall extension, but it retains paired gable bays, each with two large 18/18-pane sash windows to the first floor, flanking a tall, mullioned and transomed stair window in the centre. The ground floor has 12-pane sash windows. The central main entrance is now obscured by the later extension. An advanced block to the left features a large gable with four sash windows of 12 and 18 panes arranged 1-2-1, divided by buttresses. There are two similar gables in the larger range to the right.

The interior plan form and detail largely survive intact. The main hall features a suspended ceiling above braced decorative roof trusses and raised moulded ceiling panelling. A longitudinal corridor runs the length of the building, with dado panelling and part-glazed classroom doors with over and side lights. The staircase has paired squared carved balusters, scrolled tread ends, and carved newel posts. The rear entrance hall has dado panelling and a boarded fireplace.