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Ysgol Treborth

A Grade II Listed Building in Pentir, Gwynedd

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2141 / 53°12'50"N

Longitude: -4.1727 / 4°10'21"W

OS Eastings: 255014

OS Northings: 370763

OS Grid: SH550707

Mapcode National: GBR 5N.1DW1

Mapcode Global: WH546.WG5V

Plus Code: 9C5Q6R7G+JW

Entry Name: Ysgol Treborth

Listing Date: 22 September 1997

Last Amended: 22 September 1997

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 18918

Building Class: Education

ID on this website: 300018918

Location: Located E of Treborth Hall Farm, and on the SE side of the main railway line to Holyhead, and set in its own landscaped grounds.

County: Gwynedd

Town: Bangor

Community: Pentir

Community: Pentir

Locality: Treborth

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Manor house School building

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History

The mansion house was built for Richard Davies, ship-owner and controversial MP (liberal methodist) for Anglesey after 1852, who bought the the Treborth isaf estate in 1867. The house was probably built c1860-70, as Davies is recorded as being in residence in 1878. It appears on the OS map of 1889. It became a school for remedial education in 1950 when certain adaptations were made, and a separate block built to the rear.

Exterior

The building is rendered with terracotta dressings, and some rendered quoining. Hipped slate roofs behind parapets. Two storeys with an attic storey, asymmetrical main NW front, comprising a tall cross wing on the left, and 3 blocks stepping back to the right, each arris quoined. The first, of 2 window bays, contains the main entrance, followed by a 2-bay section with a raised and pedimented dormer, and a 3-bay end block. The main entrance has double doors over steps in a single storey extension brought forward to the face of the left wing, and is arched and flanked by Corinthian pilasters, with flanking narrow architraved windows to the main hall. To the left, a two storey canted bay, enriched with pilasters, the first floor window pedimented, and above a moulded terracotta cornice string, a pierced balustrade providing a balcony to the attic room. The windows are generally all 4-pane sashes with moulded and keyed architraves. Round-headed semi-dormers with stepped keystones and ball finials to the 3-bay end block. Rendered and panelled chimneys. The front and rear elevations extend to the SW to embrace a walled service yard with walls swept down to the central entrance.

Interior

The entrance leads through a black-and-white marble paved lobby to a spacious entrance hall, with the main oak stair with open turned balusters against the rear wall. To its left, a wide corridor passes through an architraved arch, and serves the original main reception rooms. Tall architraved and pedimented doors open left directly from the hall into the dining room with the front bay window, and to a drawing room, the doors set in deep panelled reveals. One good marble chimneypiece.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a fine example of a mid Victorian shipowner's mansion, and for the interesting use of terracotta details on a large scale.

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