The Old School House is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 July 1963. School house.

The Old School House

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 July 1963
Type
School house
Source
Cadw listing

Description

One-and-a-half-storeys, consisting of a main house with a gabled wing housing the school room forward on the R. Of rubble stone, the original openings in moulded surrounds, and with hood moulds to the windows, with thatch roof and stack at junction of main house and wing, and to L of house. To the front is an added outshut porch in the angle of main house and wing, L of which is window inserted into an original opening, while the wing has an attic casement inserted in an original opening to the gable end. The L gable end of the house has a stepped external stack, L of which is an attached garden wall. Behind, the main house has an added conservatory and two 3-light mullioned and transomed attic windows beneath eyebrows. There is a further attic casement inserted in an original opening to L above the school room. The side wall of the schoolroom has an inserted door and window.

Inside the porch is a Tudor-headed doorway to the house, and a former Tudor-headed doorway to the schoolroom, visible only from inside the schoolroom, which retains a Tudor headed fireplace. In the house is a turning wooden stair leading to all upstairs rooms, including 2 rooms over the school room.

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