Site Record

Hen Ysgol is a School-master's house with attached school. It was built in the mid C19, to serve the new church of St. Nidan (built 1839). The school-master's house is now a dwelling, and the school is a church hall. It is a symmetrically-planned, three-window range with a central entrance, and triple gables over the upper windows. It has rubble walls with a slate roof and stone chimney stacks to either gable end. The windows are mostly four pane horned sash windows with flat stone arch lintels to the ground floor.The main porch has rubble walls, a gabled roof with fish-scale pattern slate covering, and a dressed stone ball finial. The former school abuts the E side of the house and is single storeyed with a pitched roof, and with a gable to the right (E) end. It has a roof covering of thin slates, with dressed stone kneelers and a coping of thin slabs.The central porch is similiar to that of the house. To the left (W) of the door is a single large window with 18 panes; and to the right (E) is a larger window inset in the gable, with 20 panes. Both windows have flat stone arches. The gable continues to the rear to form a three window hall, with small-paned windows.

It is listed as a mid C19 school and school-house group retaining original character, and forming a group with the Church of St. Nidan (new church).

Source:- Cadw listed buildings, NJR 23/03/2009