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Latitude: 51.5021 / 51°30'7"N
Longitude: -3.1856 / 3°11'8"W
OS Eastings: 317803
OS Northings: 178793
OS Grid: ST178787
Mapcode National: GBR KGC.NH
Mapcode Global: VH6F6.QHRV
Plus Code: 9C3RGR27+RQ
Entry Name: Allensbank Primary School, Juniors
Listing Date: 9 October 2001
Last Amended: 9 October 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 25792
Building Class: Education
ID on this website: 300025792
Location: On the north eastern side of Gabalfa near Cathays Cemetery.
County: Cardiff
Town: Cardiff
Community: Gabalfa
Community: Gabalfa
Built-Up Area: Cardiff
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: School building
Built in 1904 and designed by Veall and Sant as a variant of this firm's successful Lansdown Road designs. One of a series of schools built by the Cardiff School Board of which only four have retained their architectural character. This one is designed in "ebullient Jacobethan style" and is largely unaltered externally.
Newbridge sandstone rubble in thin courses, Bath stone dressings, Welsh slate roofs with some of the brick chimney stacks removed. Two storey block in Flemish-Elizabethan style with large classroom windows with stone aprons between. Balanced elevation to the street, five bays, with a recession for the first and fifth bays, while bays two and four have shaped Flemish gables. Each bay has a 4-light window on either floor. The ground floor one in the centre bay has wider side mullions giving a 2-light window with side lights; the upper window has stepped lights within an elliptical arch. The upper windows in bays two and four have moulded tympana and a circular vent above in the gable. Most of the windows retain their small panes while the lower lights have 2 over 2 pane sashes. Hipped roofs to bays one and five. The right return elevation has double gables with roundels, the front gable has a small window on either floor; the rear one a 4-light window on either floor as before. The left return has one shaped gable with boys' and girls' entrances with shell hoods and an additional projecting single bay wing with single light windows. Paired brick stack with central opening to this wing, additional stack on rear. Rear elevation not seen.
Interior not seen at resurvey.
Included for its architectural interest as part of a well designed and almost unaltered late C19 Board School.
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