Yr Ysgoldy Fach is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 January 2000. Former schoolroom.
Yr Ysgoldy Fach
- WRENN ID
- salt-solder-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 January 2000
- Type
- Former schoolroom
- Address
- Yr Ysgoldy Fach, Tre Taliesin, Machynlleth, Llangynfelyn
- OS grid reference
- SN 658 917
- Coordinates
- 52.50685, -3.97844
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Yr Ysgoldy Fach is a former schoolroom built from rubble stone, featuring a steep slate roof with close eaves and a small rendered bellcote on the right gable. The building has a symmetrical single-storey facade with four bays, highlighted by a tall central chimney that has a shouldered chimney breast and a tall square stone stack, which is chamfered in at the eaves level and topped with slate capping. On either side of the chimney, there are two large timber six-light mullion and transom windows with a mid-transom and cast-iron lattice glazing, slate sills, and heavy slate lintels.
At each end of the building, there are lower gabled porches that project out, featuring timber bargeboards and Tudor-arched doorways with dressed stone voussoirs. The right-hand porch includes a 20th-century wrought iron gate and a blocked arch on the rear wall, while the left-hand porch provides wheelchair access. The left and right end walls also have single windows similar to those on the front. There is a 20th-century rear extension.
Inside, the building is a single cell open to the ridge and originally included a gallery at the right end, with visible marks of former posts. The roof features a five-bay open collar-truss design. The interior has a wooden floor, white painted plaster walls, and a centrally blocked fireplace. There is a boarded gable opening in the end gable, a small central window on the rear wall, a hatch leading into a modern kitchen, and a door to the toilets, all of which date from the 20th century.
Local climate
Yr Ysgoldy Fach sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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