Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St John's Church House
Old Colwyn, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Old Colwyn, Conwy, designated on 9 September 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 9 September 1994
- Locality
- Old Colwyn
- Community
- Old Colwyn
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29084, -3.69756
- Cadw reference
- 14854
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesNational Library of Scotland
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Denbighshire Sheet III.NE (National Library of Scotland)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Behind the church of Saint John.
History
Built in 1935-7, by S Colwyn Foulkes, architect, of Colwyn Bay.
Exterior
Buff brick with cable moulded string courses and concrete tiled and flat roofs behind parapets. Flat roofed main hall is splayed in plan,with stepped fly tower at its
narrowest end, blindwalled aisles, and clerestory windows. Fly tower terminates in deep band of rusticated brickwork forming a frieze. Curved inner wall at the wider end of the hall echoes the curve of the gabled frontage range, which houses meeting and service rooms and the main entrance in recessed carved splayed porch, the doorway with hollow chamfered brick moulding to the arch. Cable moulded cornice, and parapet.
Flanking windows (all metal casements with leaded lights and splayed brick heads)
grouped as 2 and 4 lights. This gabled range terminates at either end in flat roofed blocks, with narrow windows in slightly sunk openings.
Interior
Interior characterised by the use of exposed, slightly glazed brick for dressings. Main hall is splayed in plan, with curved end wall, flanked by an outer corridor that runs between the hall and the smaller meeting and service rooms. Aisles to either side of the hall are stepped up from its floor level, and the arcade has flat arches carried on plain piers with unmoulded chamfered brackets at the angles. Stage at the narrower end of the room; the curved rear wall has a series of 'porthole' windows opening from the flanking corridor. Meeting rooms on the other side of this corridor have simple exposed brick fireplaces, one with inset blue and white tiles.
Reason for designation
An excellent example of its period, the building combines modern movement and Neo-vernacular elements in its design and use of materials.
Nearby in the register
- Church of Saint JohnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Tower in Tan-y-Coed GardensGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Entrance Gate to Saint John's ChurchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Nos 407 & 409 Abergele RoadCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.