A land mark that will vanish - Old Pennar School

The old Victorian Pennar School is a tall building. It seems likely that the roof apex  of the eastern wing of the building is about 30ft above ground level.

The point where the school stands is 45 metres above mean sea level at:
Ordnance Survey Grid Reference SM 96208 02690;
51°41'9.48"N     4°56'58.28"W

The diagram below shows the local viewshed of the school, that is, the places from where the school is theoretically visible, ignoring any buildings or vegetation that might be in the line of sight.

The next picture shows the viewshed over a wide area. The digram at the top of the illustration gives a panoramic view of the ground surface form the school, from a point 20 ft above ground level.

Through the kindness of another who is concerned about the future of the building, I have obtained some photographs of the school in its present state. The roof and all openings seem to be secure and weather tight.

This is a view of the school from the east, just off Treowen Road. The road is behind the wall in the foreground. When used as a County Junior School, the grassed area was a tarmac yard with a high net fencing all around it. The eaves on this side of the building provided ample space for nesting swifts, as mentioned in a previous post.

The next photograph, this time taken from roughly the North East, shows the dominant position that the building holds on the sole road into Pennar (Treowen Road). The school was sited to impress.

The green house stands on the site of the field that was known as School Gardens. It was just that - School Gardens!

It seems to me that it would be a sad loss if this place, where so many of the children in Pennar started or continued their education, were to be demolished.

Madness!