Ysgol Maesydre

School, Baroque Revival style with an appearance dominated by coped gables and roof slopes. In red brick, tiled roof with sandstone dressings, including cill courses, kneelers and cappings. Modillion eaves and timber windows.

Tall 2 storey main central hall range, with single storey ranges clustered to either side of it in a balanced asymmetrical composition. To the N (front) of the main range, a projecting wing with Dutch-style gable and large Diocletian-style window with a grid of glazing (lighting the hall); intermittent projecting stone voussoirs to the window arch, and in apex of gable above, roundel in panel, banded stonework and scrolled pediment with ball finial. Projecting below the window is canted bay with flat roof behind parapet, and mullioned window beneath very shallow curved pediment to parapet; the original stone mullioned window has been deepened by the addition of a timber mullioned window aligned with it below; further single windows to angles. Square projections to side of hall wing, with mullion windows, and additional windows above set back below the eaves. Cupola on the ridge behind. To either side of the central hall wing are lower gabled bays projecting from the deep roof of the main range, each with tiered sash windows of 12 and 18 lights.

In line with these, but projecting from either side of the main two-storey range are lower single storey ranges. That to left is a twin-gabled range with double pile range to rear offset outwards. Plain end gable with flat roofed single storey 1955 extension attached. Right-hand range comprises a single bay, with tiered window in gable as before and again with rear range with ridge cupola offset outwards.

Rear elevation of main hall range partly obscured by 1955 sports hall extension but with paired gable bays each with two large 18/18-pane sash windows to the first floor, flanking tall mullioned and transomed (stair) window to the centre. 12 pane sash windows to the ground floor. Central main entrance now obscured by later extension. Advanced block to left has big gable with four sash windows of 12 and 18 panes arranged 1-2-1, divided by buttresses. Two similar gables in larger range to right.

Interior plan form and detail survives largely intact. Main hall has suspended ceiling, above which the braced decorative roof trusses survive with raised moulded ceiling panelling. Longitudinal corridor from end to end with dado panelling, part glazed classroom doors with over and side lights. Stair with paired squared carved balusters, scrolled tread ends and carved newel posts. Entrance hall at rear with dado panelling and fireplace (boarded).