Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
3565
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/04/1992
Date of Amendment
14/04/1992
Name of Property
Church Institute
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llanfairfechan
Town
Locality
Easting
268308
Northing
374796
Street Side
Location
Parallel to road opposite junction with The Close.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Opened 11 February 1912. Architect Herbert Luck North (1871-1941). Arts and crafts style hall and service rooms.
Exterior
Rough-cast render (now painted white). Roof laid in graded courses of small grey and russet slates from Gallt y Llan quarry, Snowdon. Hall with shallow transepts. Exceptional expanse of roof sweeps down to first floor level. Conical slated ventilator (with cross-pinnacle) at intersection of ridges. In roof slop dormer window with hipped slated roof. In E facing gable, tall pointed-arched window, lozenge in apex, glazing with multiple mullions and transoms and small leaded lights; boarded doors below window. Thick buttress with slated gable. At each end of main block, splayed porches recalling butterfly plan houses of the period, (formerly Men’s and Women’s entrances). In gable ends of porches, 2 pointed arched windows. Double boarded doors with small lozenge-shaped windows. Similar treatment to rear elevation but with small service wing at N corner instead of porches. SW elevation gable end has window as front gable; gable facing NE has two tall lancet windows separated by tall stepped and gabled buttress; chimney behind buttress. Rear elevation similar to front lacking splayed porches but with small kitchen wing at N corner.
Interior
Interior has lofty well-lit hall with 4 converging cruck-like beams. Stage at SW end, partially lit by dormer windows. Room behind stage (entered from S porch), stained wooden post-and-panel partition; room below stage. At NE end, fireplace in red and black Buckley bridge with pointed arch and Islamic tiles. Porches have lavatories, and wing to N corner has kitchen.
Reason for designation
Graded II* as an exceptional and unspoilt Arts and Crafts design.
Group value with listed buildings in Park Road and The Close.
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