Church Hall, formerly the Church School is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 August 1999. School.

Church Hall, formerly the Church School

WRENN ID
ghost-string-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 August 1999
Type
School
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Former school building in the neo-Tudor style considered appropriate for superior educational buildings in the early Victorian period, a style which echoes that of Golden Grove mansion. Described here in terms of its original rooms, it consists of a two-storey master's house between a two-window boys' schoolroom to the left and a one-window schoolroom for girls to the right. The schoolrooms are single-storey; the girls' is lower-roofed and set back slightly from the line of the building. Rubble common masonry with limestone ashlar dressings including large quoins. The rear and the left gable wall have been rendered (not originally). Slate roofs in regular courses; tile ridge. The end gables, the gable of the master's house and the gables of the classrooms windows, both front and rear, are coped. Small finial over each schoolroom front gable. Diagonally set limestone chimney at right gable end with very pronounced coping and a large offset (other original chimneys lost). Small modern extensions at rear. At each side of the master's house is an open-fronted internal porch within a chamfered straight-sided simplified Tudor arch, with six-panelled internal doors. In the left porch an original door enters the boys' schoolroom, the door ahead is probably altered. In the right porch the right door enters the girls' schoolroom, the door ahead is altered and the door to the left is walled up. Three-light mullion windows above and below to the master's house at front; similar but taller windows carried up into through-eaves gables to the schoolrooms at front and rear. Quarry glazing. Above each of the schoolroom front windows is a scroll tablet with the inscription 'Fear God'.

Exposed roof structure in the schoolrooms: each has a strutted mid-height purlin at each side. In the boys' schoolroom there are two trusses, the tiebeams of which have been cut through.

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