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Dolwyddelan Church School, Also Church Hall

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NPRN23215
Map ReferenceSH75SW
Grid ReferenceSH7356052275
Unitary (Local) AuthorityConwy
Old CountyCaernarfonshire
CommunityDolwyddelan
Type Of SiteCHURCH SCHOOL
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
A nineteenth century school, later the Church Hall, incorporating an earlier house. This is shown with a farmbuilding on a late eighteenth century watercolour by Paul Sandby (now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge). The building is now a private residence(?).
The house, thought to be eighteenth century, is one and a half storeys, built of mortared rubble under a slate gabled roof, with an original chimney stack in the north-west gable. The two bay longwall facades have doorways and windows with Tudor profile stone heads, the upper storey windows in small cross gables.
The school was added to the house's south-east gable. It comprises two adjoining halls as well as small porches and annexes.

It is sometimes claimed that the earlier house is a late sixteenth century building, to be identified with an inn named 'Tan-yr-Eglwys', recorded in the late seventeenth century. This has been the subject of sometimes heated correspondence.

Source: NMR Site Files - including correspondence in separate folder

John Wiles 12.06.07