Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Christ Church Vicarage
Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bryn y Maen, Colwyn Bay, Conwy, designated on 25 July 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1994
- Locality
- Bryn y Maen
- Town
- Colwyn Bay
- Community
- Colwyn Bay
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26959, -3.74731
- Cadw reference
- 14723
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Opposite Christ Church.
History
Built 1897-8 at the expense of Mrs Eleanor Frost. Designed by Doulgas and Fordham, architects, of Chester.
Exterior
Pebbledash with free-stone dressings (red sandstone to windows, limestone angle quoins); slate roof with red tiled cresting, and brick axial stacks with moulded caps. 2 storeyed, 3-window range. Central entrance, the door in moulded architrave flanked by side lights, with 3-ligh mullioned window in dormer gable breaking the eaves line above. Canted bay windows to either side of the entrance, with corbelled angles above to straight projecting gables; 3-light mullioned windows in the upper storeys. Each of the 3 gables has prominent bargeboards with pendant finials.
Reason for designation
One of an important group of buildings commissioned by Mrs Eleanor Frost and designed by Douglas and Fordham at Bryn y Maen.
Nearby in the register
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bryn EgwysDomesticunder 1 mi
- Grianllyn FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Grianllyn Farm (W side)Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.