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Latitude: 51.4867 / 51°29'12"N
Longitude: -3.606 / 3°36'21"W
OS Eastings: 288585
OS Northings: 177640
OS Grid: SS885776
Mapcode National: GBR HC.KFPW
Mapcode Global: VH5HJ.GW0N
Plus Code: 9C3RF9PV+MH
Entry Name: The Old School House
Listing Date: 26 July 1963
Last Amended: 29 January 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11232
Building Class: Education
ID on this website: 300011232
Location: Set back from main road through village approximately 300m ENE of parish church.
County: Bridgend
Community: Merthyr Mawr
Community: Merthyr Mawr
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: House
Built c1837 by Sir John Nicholl of the Merthyr Mawr Estate. The building originally comprised a school with schoolmaster's house. After the closure of the school the building became 2 dwellings, but is now a single dwelling.
One-and-a-half-storeys, consisting of a main house with a gabled wing housing the school room forward on the R. Of rubble stone, the original openings in moulded surrounds, and with hood moulds to the windows, with thatch roof and stack at junction of main house and wing, and to L of house. To the front is an added outshut porch in the angle of main house and wing, L of which is window inserted into an original opening, while the wing has an attic casement inserted in an original opening to the gable end. The L gable end of the house has a stepped external stack, L of which is an attached garden wall. Behind, the main house has an added conservatory and two 3-light mullioned and transomed attic windows beneath eyebrows. There is a further attic casement inserted in an original opening to L above the school room. The side wall of the schoolroom has an inserted door and window.
Inside the porch is a Tudor-headed doorway to the house, and a former Tudor-headed doorway to the schoolroom, visible only from inside the schoolroom, which retains a Tudor headed fireplace. In the house is a turning wooden stair leading to all upstairs rooms, including 2 rooms over the school room.
A C19 rural estate school retaining early character and detail, and for group value with other associated listed items in Merthyr Mawr and the Merthyr Mawr Estate.
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