Adamsdown Board School was built in 1879, possibly to the designs of architect Walter Blessley. Gable fronted main building of one storey, with three storey square tower to side, in Gothic style. Pitched slate roofs to this main building and to plainer buildings to either side. Three pointed arch transomed and mullioned windows to the main front with trefoil headed lights. Arched brace roof trusses to the interior.

J Hill 19/04/2004. Updated by M. Powel, RCAHMW. May 2023.

Sources: Site File GL/Domestic/ST17NE; 'Half-Century of Education', Western Mail, 28 October 1955, p.8.