Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The old China Shop, including China House
St. Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St. Asaph, Denbighshire, designated on 24 November 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- St. Asaph
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25733, -3.44576
- Cadw reference
- 1474
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Projecting at the bend in the Street, with elevations to 3 sides; cobbled pavement to front
Exterior
Sub medieval origin; said to date back to 1580 and to have been a convent associated with the Parish Church. Rubble 2-storey and attic 1 window sw front and NW gable end, undulating slate roof and gable parapet; contemporary rubble chimney stack, with brick capping, to right now incorporated into Kirkside which is much altered following fire. Modern attic window to front small pane sash 1st floor window under timber lintel; architrave to the shop front with brick pilasters and sash windows, small pane to left; modern half glazed door. Tripartite stone mullion cross framed attic window to gable end; small pane sash to 1st floor and later tripartite fixed glazed window below.
Victorian 3-storey range to left with curved corner, brick ground floor and pebbledash upper floor; brick cornice and band over ground floor; small pane sash windows. Advanced gabled 2-storey bay to right incorporating 4-panel door entrance.
Interior
Interior of the Old China Shop retains stop chamfered beams and fireplace lintel ground floor partitioned into offices. Massive stop chamfered beam to drawing room of China House and narrow irregularly shaped boarded door, said to lead to a Priest's Hole.
Nearby in the register
- St. Kentigern & St. Asaph Parish ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sundial in the Churchyard to St .Kentigern & St .Asaph Parish ChurchGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Greengrocer's ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
- Kinmel Arms P.H.Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.