Former St Fagans Church in Wales Primary School is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 October 1977. School.
Former St Fagans Church in Wales Primary School
- WRENN ID
- vast-truss-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1977
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- ST 121 771
- Coordinates
- 51.4865, -3.26662
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a former Church in Wales primary school, dating from the 16th to 17th centuries, built in a vernacular style with detailed design. The school is located to the east (right) and the teacher’s house to the west (left). The building consists of a central wing flanked by two cross-wings.
The front elevation of the central wing is two stories tall and four bays wide. It features a chimney stack with three terracotta pots on the rear. The first window bay to the east has a gabled roof and a three-light mullion window on both the first and ground floors, with a transom bar to the ground floor window. The third bay is similarly gabled with matching windows. The second and fourth bays have parapets; the second bay contains a narrow single-light window above and below, the upper one being blind. The fourth bay has a narrow, traceried single-light window on the first floor and a porch with a pointed head and six-panelled door, set at an angle with the south-western cross-wing.
The eastern bay of the north-facing (front) elevation of the cross-wing is gabled and has a transom and mullion window on both floors. The western bay is topped with a parapet and features a two-light window on the ground floor. A chimney stack with four terracotta pots is situated on the roof.
To the southwest, a lower, single-story wing with a parapet and coping along the front wall includes a doorway with a pointed head and a ledged door.
An 1890 cross-wing extends eastward from the central wing, and is lower in height; it features a single-story and attic northern gable end, a three-light mullion window in the attic, and a lean-to porch with a projecting gabled bay containing a single-light window with a pointed head. This wing is characterised by ashlar stacks and a slightly higher roofline to the rear, with a bellcote on the roof. Two dormers have been added to the east-facing roof slope.
The interior was not accessible for inspection as it was undergoing conversion.
Local climate
Former St Fagans Church in Wales Primary School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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