Albert Road County Infants School is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1990. Water mill.
Albert Road County Infants School
- WRENN ID
- iron-forge-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1990
- Type
- Water mill
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Albert Road County Infants School is a 19th-century educational building arranged in a U-shaped layout. It features separate Boys and Girls Halls and classrooms, with a central School House set back behind a front garden. The structure is built of rubble, which is snecked to earlier work and coursed to later enlargements, with freestone dressings around the windows and quoins. The roofs are tiled with overhanging eaves and brick chimney stacks, and the windows have square-pane glazing.
The hall ranges for Boys and Girls are positioned with gables facing the road, and each has transverse wings with gable ends sloping downhill. The doorways are centrally located at the front. The Boys' Hall features a three-light square-headed window with pilasters, while the Girls' Hall has a Venetian-style window with a central keystone and rounded cills. Both gables are adorned with blue and white painted decorations, created by R Norton Nance of St Ives and designed by his wife, showcasing motifs like fleur de lys, dragons, and birds on roughcast. Some of the Girls' decorations are framed within a reticulated pattern border. Below the eaves to the left of the entrances are unique inset painted panels depicting boys at work and girls exercising with dumb-bells. The downhill gable ends have simple painted decorations and three-light windows, with the Girls' Hall featuring an additional transverse wing that steps forward with twin gable ends. Both roofs have small clerestories on either side.
The two-storey School House has a tall gable on the advanced right-hand bay. It features pointed arched lights with a high transom on the first floor, set below a blind shield and relieving arch. The ground floor has paired cross-frame windows with trefoil-headed lights, and small panes above. A hipped dormer roof is positioned over the left-hand first-floor cross-frame window, and there is a lean-to below that contains a three-light window and a porch with a segmental arched entry, featuring a shouldered doorway within.
At the rear, there are single-storey school ranges that relate to the earlier construction, featuring similar trefoil-headed lights set within tall gables, with transoms at the eaves level. The later work includes arched braced roof trusses.
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