Ysgol Lawnt is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 May 2001. School.
Ysgol Lawnt
- WRENN ID
- blind-gallery-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney MP: Nick Smith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 15 May 2001
- Type
- School
- Address
- Ysgol Lawnt, Rhymney
- OS grid reference
- SO 112 075
- Coordinates
- 51.75914, -3.28656
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ysgol Lawnt is a large detached house built in the Regency style, which has been converted into a school. The exterior is entirely rendered, showing signs of scoring, and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with a shallow pitch, terracotta ridge tiles, and deep overhanging boarded bracketed eaves. The chimneys have been removed. The building has a rectangular central block with a narrower cross rear wing that steps back on the uphill side. There is also a separately roofed narrow wing parallel to the frontage on the downhill side, along with further extensions that incorporate former outbuildings.
The former garden frontage displays a three-window range, with the first floor originally featuring 12-pane sash windows, of which one in the center has been retained. The ground floor likely had tripartite sash windows similar to those at The Lawn, but these have now been replaced. The central flat-roofed corniced porch has blind recesses with sills on either side of the doorway, and the side walls of the porch have small-pane fixed glazing, mostly original on the downhill side. The uphill side elevation retains tripartite windows on the main block and a four-window range of mostly 12-pane sashes on the rear wing. The first floor also has retained 12-pane sash windows on the downhill side elevation.
Inside, despite the conversion to a school, the layout remains intact with a central corridor leading to various rooms and a staircase at the rear. This staircase features turned newel posts, stick balusters, and a ramped handrail. Some rooms still have plaster cornice mouldings, moulded plaster panels and brackets, six-panelled doors with architraves, panelled reveals, and shutters.
Local climate
Ysgol Lawnt sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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