Castle School and School house is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1998. School.
Castle School and School house
- WRENN ID
- floating-brass-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1998
- Type
- School
- Address
- Castle School and School house, Kidwelly/Cydweli, Kidwelly
- OS grid reference
- SN 407 069
- Coordinates
- 51.73875, -4.30769
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Castle School and School House is a single-storey building constructed from squared rubble stone with yellow brick dressings and slate roofs. The original structure features a limestone plinth, west end quoins, and coping to a shouldered gable. On the west side, there is one window, while the south wall has four identical windows with a porch situated between the first and second windows. The windows have limestone sills, and the original ones are surrounded by yellow brick with cambered heads, featuring 3-light mullion-and-transom glazing with unusually large diamond panes.
In 1887, the third window was replaced by a large gable that includes two tall windows, and a cross-wing was added to the right end. The porch has a coped shouldered gable, a yellow-brick Tudor-arched front, and grey limestone sides, along with a ledged door. The original windows have yellow-brick surrounds, while the 1887 window consists of two very tall cambered-headed small-paned windows with a centre mullion and two transoms. The gable features plain bargeboards and yellow-brick surrounds.
The cross-wing has yellow-brick quoins, a door with a slate pent hood in the angle, and triple cambered-headed windows in the gable, with the centre window being larger. The east wall has two windows and a side-wall stack. At the rear, facing Bailey Street, there is an integrated two-storey schoolhouse with exposed masonry, including quoins at the angle and yellow brick dressings. The window frames and door have been altered, and the gabled end is rendered.
Local climate
Castle School and School house sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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