Detail Report - Bangor Civic Society

Authority Gwynedd
Community Llandygai
Locality Llandygai
Postcode
Name
Location
LL57 4HU
Neuadd Talgai
Detail Report
Record No 23429
Grid Ref 260050 371010
Grade II
Situated directly to the north of the Church of St Tegai with the wall to Penrhyn Park to the north; separated from
the churchyard by the railings running along the northern side of its yew-lined avenue.
History
Built in 1813 at expense of the Penrhyn Estate as school for village girls with attached schoolmistress's cottage,
one of the first buildings provided for public benefit in the estate village of Llandygai; the school is now a
community hall shared by the villages of Llandygai and Taly-bont.
Exterior
Former school and attached schoolmistress's cottage. Picturesque Gothic style, school of basic L-plan with cottage
set back to north; whole constructed of roughcast rubblestone, painted to cottage; slate roofs, hipped to school
with wide spreading bracketed eaves. Front (west) wall of main school range has 3 mullioned and transomed
timber windows with dripstones, of 4 lights to left and right, of 2 lights to centre, all with arched heads above the
transom; same window in 4 lights to right return and another of 2 lights in back wall adjoining rear range, which
has large gabled porch projecting in angle with main range bearing recessed slate inscription panel reading "This
School was Erected /by/ Ann Susanah/ Baroness Penrhyn/ And the Land Granted/ by Richard Pennant Esq'r/
Ann. Dom. Mdcccxiii." Below is a recessed nail-studded door in steeply-pointed Tudor arch and to the right of
the porch is a small single-storey hip-roofed addition with 2 windows to the front wall; back wall of rear range
has 4-light timber mullion window, each light divided into 8 panes. Conical metal flue to centre of ridge on main
range and tall stack with chimneypots to rear range.
Interior
Hall has boarded floor and glazed screen dividing the front and rear sections.
Listed
Date Listed
Date Amended
Date Delisted
24/05/2000
Included as a well-preserved early C19 school and attached schoolmistres's cottage of Picturesque style, forming a
primary element in the social and architectural history of this important planned estate village; good group with
the adjoining parish church and boundary railings.
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