Cilycwm Primary School

The Cilycwm Primary School is a building of group value, dating from the 18th century, constructed of rubble stone with slate roofs and stone stacks. The building is arranged in a U-shaped plan, with a single-storey L-shaped school range and a two-storey teacher’s house at the east end. The main north-facing front originally had a recessed central section, but this has now been built out to match the existing stone and with a flat roof. There is a small-paned three-light window on either side of the central front door, which has an overlight. To the northeast, the teacher’s house has a gable with attic and ground-floor casement windows, and a side-wall stack. A Tudor-arched porch is situated on the east side, set into the angle of a similar-facing gable. The northwest schoolroom gable is steeply pitched and features a tall, flat-headed three-light window and a vent loop in the gable. A lean-to has been added to the west end, with a pair of casement windows on the north side, connecting to a tower that obscures the original external north door. The square tower has a saddle-back roof with gabled north-south orientations and ashlar loops in each gable. A chamfered band on the west side of the tower incorporates two loops and an oval plaque inscribed "Cilycwm Church of England School Thomas Matthews BD Vicar". The main school range, set back behind the tower, features a four-light mullion-and-transom window in the west gable, and three three-light plastic mullion-and-transom windows at the rear. All openings have flat stone-voussoir heads.