Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Outbuilding at Gyffin Community Centre
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 8 October 1981
- Locality
- Gyffin
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27471, -3.83566
- Cadw reference
- 3297
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
On the S side of the Community Centre
History
Built in 1903 as an outbuilding to a school by Herbert Luck North, architect, according to a handlist prepared from the architect's own notes. The building is first shown on the 1913 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 1-storey outbuilding of rubble stone with slate roof incorporating chevron patterning in lighter slates. The gable-end front has a round-headed doorway with boarded door and boarding to the overlight, under an arch of vitreous blue brick. Similar bricks surround 3 small windows in the gable, above which the gable is slate hung. In the L side wall is an opening boarded up, below which are vertical joints suggesting that it was originally a doorway.
Reason for designation
Listed as an outbuilding with good arts and crafts character, by one of the principal architects working in N Wales in the early C20, and for group value with the main school building.
Nearby in the register
- Gyffin Community CentreEducationunder 1 mi
- Wall, including gate piers and gate, surrounding Gyffin churchyardReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Grave slab of Hugh Owen of Bodidda in Gyffin churchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Grave slab of John Holland and John Holland in Gyffin churchyardCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.