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
The Church Hall, formerly the Church School, is a former school building designed in the neo-Tudor style, which was popular for educational buildings in the early Victorian period. This style is reminiscent of the nearby Golden Grove mansion. The building features a two-storey master's house situated between a two-window boys' schoolroom on the left and a one-window girls' schoolroom on the right. The schoolrooms are single-storey, with the girls' room having a lower roof and being set back slightly from the main line of the building.
Constructed with rubble common masonry and limestone ashlar dressings, the building includes large quoins. The rear and left gable wall have been rendered, which was not part of the original design. It has slate roofs laid in regular courses with a tile ridge. The end gables, the gable of the master's house, and the gables of the classroom windows, both front and rear, are coped. Each schoolroom front gable features a small finial. A diagonally set limestone chimney is located at the right gable end, characterized by pronounced coping and a large offset, while other original chimneys have been lost. There are also small modern extensions at the rear.
On either side of the master's house, there are open-fronted internal porches featuring chamfered straight-sided simplified Tudor arches, each with six-panelled internal doors. In the left porch, an original door leads into the boys' schoolroom, while the door ahead has likely been altered. In the right porch, the right door leads into the girls' schoolroom, the door ahead has been altered, and the left door has been walled up.
The master's house has three-light mullion windows both above and below at the front, with similar but taller windows extending into the through-eaves gables of the schoolrooms at both the front and rear. These windows feature quarry glazing. Above each of the schoolroom front windows is a scroll tablet inscribed with the words 'Fear God'.
Inside the schoolrooms, the roof structure is exposed, with each room having a strutted mid-height purlin on each side. The boys' schoolroom contains two trusses, although the tiebeams of these trusses have been cut through.
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