Former Priory Street School with walls and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1981. A Late 20th century for rear wing School, offices.

Former Priory Street School with walls and railings

WRENN ID
white-stone-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1981
Type
School, offices
Period
Late 20th century for rear wing
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Former Priory Street School, now used as offices, is a Gothic-style building constructed in coursed rubble stone with Bath stone dressings and slate eaves roofs featuring bargeboards. It is a single-storey structure with a long main range running east to west. The entrance gable projects to the right of the center on the north front and includes a small square turret in the angle to the right. A late 20th-century rear wing has been added.

The building has an ashlar plinth and quoins. The eastern end features a traceried three-light window with two cinquefoils and one quatrefoil, topped by a roundel. The north wall has large windows with chamfered and stopped surrounds and cambered heads, consisting of one single window and two pairs. Each window has a late 20th-century skylight above it. The lower gabled porch wing has a plain bargeboard, one first-floor window, and a pointed doorway with a ledged door offset to the right. In the angle to the right, there is a slender square bell turret with two cusped belfry openings on each side and a steep pyramidal slate roof, along with a round ashlar chimney on the ridge. The wall to the right is windowless. The western end wall has three similar cambered-headed long windows with relieving arches above them. The rear wall contains two similar pairs of windows to the right and the added wing to the left.

In front, there is a forecourt wall made of stone with ashlar chamfered coping and short iron railings featuring three horizontal bars between standards, with two at the top, one at the bottom, and diagonal struts. The standards have branched finials. Since 1981, the walls have been restored and altered, resulting in the loss of gates, now forming two L-shaped lengths.

The interior has been mostly modernized, but the schoolroom retains a fine stained glass window at the eastern end, dating from 1870, depicting scenes from the education of Christ, which was given by Valentine Davies.

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