16 St Peter's Square, including churchyard boundary wall to rear

Cadw's description

Location

Located at the N end of a block facing W into the Square. The N side forms a boundary to the Churchyard.

History

Town-house, probably late C18. At one time it was the Black Horse Pub, which stopped trading in 1929. A shop was inserted to the R in the C19.

Exterior

Late-Georgian 3-storey 2-window town-house; rear wing flush with N gable end, fronting churchyard. Constructed of red brick under a slate roof, hipped to L end, with dentilled eaves cornice; central brick ridge stack, and small stack to R end, probably for shop. The house has a central round-arched entrance with 6-panel door and fanlight with radial glazing bars. Ornate wooden doorcase, probably C19, with fluted columns on high bases, the capitals with egg-and-dart mouldings, which support scrolled brackets to an open triangular pediment with dentilled decoration. Under the pediment and flanking the fanlight are 2 small roundels reading RR. The house has flush sash windows under flat-arched heads of gauged brickwork. To the R, horned sashes, 16-pane to 1st floor, 4-over-8-pane to 2nd floor. To the L, hornless 12-pane sashes to ground and 1st floor, 3-over-6-pane sash to 2nd floor. To R of ground floor is a later wooden shop-front with plain cornice: panelled door to R with plain overlight, now boarded over, between plain pilasters; to its L, plate-glass bay window on a brick plinth. To the rear, wide C20 doorway to L with narrow light above, and a metal fire-escape staircase. To R, shallow full-height gabled bay with openings offset to L: wide 2-light casement to attic, tall casement to 1st floor, both with segmental brick heads; small lean-to to ground. The rear wing adjoins to the R.

The N end of the house fronting the churchyard is a 2-window range with a hipped roof. The windows are 3-light wooden casements with transoms under segmental brick heads, those to 2nd floor shorter. Adjoining to the L is a 2-storey rear wing, of brick under a slate roof with brick end stack; the upper storey appears to be later. The ground floor has a 3-light wooden casement under segmental brick head to R and a small infilled opening with segmental head to L; upper storey has 2 x 3-light wooden casements immediately under the eaves. Adjoining to the L, a former lofted outbuilding in 2 parts, of rubble stone to R with no openings, and of brick to L with a small square loft hatch infilled with brick. Churchyard boundary wall, of rubble stone, to L. The S side of the rear wing is 2-window with large 3-light windows under segmental heads to upper storey. Ground floor has 2-light casement to L and C20 wooden window to R, between which is a former doorway infilled with brick. The former outbuilding adjoining to R was probably a stable: It has 2 boarded doors, each with a C20 casement on its L side and under a long wooden lintel. The loft has a central doorway under a gablet containing doubled half-glazed boarded doors; wooden hoist above. Flanking the doorway are mid-C20 wooden casements. E gable end has 6-over-9-pane sash to upper storey; blocked opening to ground floor. To the R is a 2-bay garage, a lean-to off the churchyard boundary wall. It has a central brick pier and corrugated lean-to roof. Further R, the churchyard boundary wall turns at right-angles towards the N and contains a former doorway blocked with stone; it turns again towards the E, where it is of coursed masonry with a string course to parapets, and contains a doorway with segmental voussoired head, blocked with stone. It then continues in rubble stone, adjoining Christ's Hospital.

Interior

Interior of office contained no features of historic interest, the rest not seen.

Reason for designation

Listed for its architectural interest as a late-Georgian town-house retaining its form, character and detail. The front to the churchyard and the attached boundary wall form an important component of the parochial close. Group value with surrounding listed buildings and structures in St Peter's Square.