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
The Old School House, also known as Yr Hen Ysgol, is a Gothic Revival style building that served as both a schoolroom and a schoolmaster's house. It consists of a single-storey schoolroom with a parallel extension on the left and a two-storey house on the right, arranged in three bays and separated by a cross passage. The structure is built from coursed stone rubble with pale ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof adorned with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, ashlar coping, kneelers, and decorative finials on the gables. The building has tall stacks with offsets, a cornice band, and yellow pots, most located on the ridge, with one external stack on the front left.
All the windows are trefoil-headed lights set in ashlar surrounds, divided by mullions, with most being in multiples and a few single. The glazing consists of diamond quarries in metal casements. The schoolmaster's house features a steeply and asymmetrically gabled cross gable with windows on both storeys, including two lights on the first floor and three on the ground floor. The single-storey schoolroom wing to the left has overhanging eaves and a range of four-light windows plus one single window. It also has a wide external stack with asymmetrical offsets next to a steep-pitched gabled porch that includes a pointed arched entrance doorway, representing the original school entrance and fireplace.
Attached to the left is a stretch of wall with saddleback coping and decorative cresting above a pointed arched doorway leading to the garden, with an additional garden doorway in the wall to the right. The garden elevation at the rear features similar windows and five asymmetrical cross gables: a low pair to the right for the schoolroom extension and higher gables to the left for the hall, which includes a Tudor-arched entrance doorway below. There is also a double bay that breaks forward to the left, serving as the bedroom accommodation for the house. The house's frontage has three cross bays, with the centre bay being narrow and close to a tall wide stack. The front is bordered by a coursed rubble and dressed stone wall with saddleback coping, along with two pairs of hipped gate piers and iron gates featuring spear railings.
Inside, the building retains its original layout, fireplaces, staircase, white walls, and dark stained wood. The former schoolroom has been converted into a living room, but the core unit remains mostly unaltered, with later extensions added.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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