Old School House (also known as Yr Hen Ysgol) is a Grade II* listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 January 1963. House. 1 related planning application.

Old School House (also known as Yr Hen Ysgol)

WRENN ID
hallowed-brass-crow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 January 1963
Type
House
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Schoolroom and schoolmaster's house in Gothic Revival style. Plan of single storey schoolroom and parallel extension to left and 2 storey house right, 3 bays in depths, separated by cross passage. Built of coursed stone rubble with pale ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, ashlar coping and kneelers and decorative finials to gables; tall stacks with offsets, cornice band and yellow pots, most astride ridge, one external front left. All windows are trefoil headed lights in an ashlar surround divided by mullions, most in multiples, a few single; glazing is diamond quarries in metal casements. Schoolmaster's house has steeply and asymmetrically gabled cross gable with windows on 2 storeys, 2 light to first floor and 3 to ground. Single storey schoolroom wing to left has overhanging eaves, 4-light window range plus one single and wide external stack with asymmetrical offsets adjacent to steep pitched gabled porch with pointed arched entrance doorway; these features represent the original school entrance and fireplace. Attached to left is a stretch of wall with saddleback coping, and decorative cresting above a pointed arched doorway to garden; further garden doorway in wall to right. Garden elevation to rear has similar windows and 5 asymmetrical cross gables: a low pair to right to schoolroom extension, higher to left to hall, with Tudor-arched entrance doorway below, and breaking forward to left a double bay, the bedroom accommodation for the house. House frontage has 3 cross bays, narrow to centre and close to a tall wide stack. Front is bordered by coursed rubble and dressed stone wall with saddle back coping and 2 pairs of hipped gate piers and iron gates with spear railings.

Interior retains original plan and fireplaces, staircase, white walls and dark stained wood; the former schoolroom is now converted to a living room. Thus the core unit remains mostly unaltered with later extensions.

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