Llanidloes National School
Smithfield St
In July 1844 the North Wales Chronicle announced that a National School was to be built in Llanidloes under the supervision of Thomas Penson, Oswestry. It was to cater for 240 children and include a house for the master and mistress.
Exterior
The Buildings of Wales, Powys describes: ‘a hip-roofed three-bay front with big mullion-and-transom windows, minimal Tudor detail'.
All the windows had been altered by the time the Malcolm Seaborne photograph was taken in 1990. A dormer to the right had also gone. The unusual, paired doorways beneath the single, wide Tudor arch of the porch remained and still survive.
The Building Today
The school moved out in 1952 and today the building serves as the clubhouse for Llanidloes Rugby Club. A brick extension to the right, dating from 1896, has been replaced by housing.
Text: John Hainsworth
Sources
E. Ronald Morris: Llanidloes Town and Parish: an illustrated account 1993
Scourfield and Haslam: The Buildings of Wales, Powys, 2013
North Wales Chronicle 2 July 1844
