History

Former school built by City of Birmingham for education of children of the village built for maintenance workers at Elan Valley reservoir scheme. Designed between 1906 and 1909 by Buckland, Haywood, & Farmer, architects, of Birmingham.

Exterior

Arts & Crafts style. Brown rubble with bathstone dressings, slate roof. Mullioned windows. Main block has louvred ventilator with pyramidal roof and pinnacle. Roof half-hipped (3-light mullioned windows to ends) and sweeps down at sides over 3-light windows; between these, 3 tall gables with large mullioned and transomed windows. To L, lower block with gable to front; to R, single storey blocks. Rear has 3 large gables with tall windows. To R of main block is tower with saddleback roof; to front, louvred camber-headed opening with bathstone panel below with shield, to sides 3-light louvred openings.

Reasons for Listing

Included as striking example of building type, forming part of group of early C20 Arts & Crafts buildings in Elan Village.

Group value.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29493895

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)