Former Mamhilad School is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 August 1997. School.
Former Mamhilad School
- WRENN ID
- tenth-jade-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1997
- Type
- School
- Address
- Former Mamhilad School, Pontypool, New Inn
- OS grid reference
- SO 307 029
- Coordinates
- 51.72115, -3.00318
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Former Mamhilad School is a small primary school combined with a master's house, built from yellow brick with red brick and some stone dressings. It features a Welsh slate roof and two types of plain red tile roofs, showcasing a minimal Gothic style. The building has a T-shaped plan, with the house facing south and the school located to the right, extending towards the road and featuring a gabled porch. A further schoolroom projects at the rear. The school is single storey, while the house is two storeys.
The road elevation includes a porch with a plank door set within a Caernarvon arched head. Above the porch is an incised plaque that reads "SCHOOL 1856." Behind the porch, there is another gable with a quatrefoil window, topped with a small bell-turret that has a bell. The turret is made of brick below and features a gabled stone finial. To the right of this gable is the projecting wing, which is entirely red brick with a Welsh slate roof and may be a later extension, closely matching the original structure. This wing has two windows, which are mullion and transom casements with elliptical heads.
On the south elevation, the house has two gables of different sizes, each featuring two over two sash windows. The smaller gable is tiled, while the larger is slated. To the right, the schoolroom has two three-light mullion and transom windows.
The interior was not available for inspection at the time of the resurvey in November 1996.
Local climate
Former Mamhilad School receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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