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.
Date of Designation
24/09/1951
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
House at St. Asaph Auction Rooms
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Location
On steeply sloping ground midway along the street; rendered brick wall to front.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
Dated 1843 (rebuilding of 1807 chapel); side wall and S gable end facades.
Exterior
Symmetrical 2-storey, 5-window red brick front with some blue bricks; slate roof with ventilation cupola. Tall arched 12-pane windows with voussoirs and fan traceried heads. Steps up to central arched entrance with fanlight and panelled double doors flanked by Doric columns; plaque above reads:-
"Adeiladwyd 1807 a ailadeiladwyd 1843". Scribed rendered brick right gable-end with quoins, billet cornice and rusticated ground floor below cill band. Deeply advanced and lower projecting central bay, pedimented gable end with large round window (now blocked) over panelled double doors; fluted brackets resting on band course above.
Forward to the street to left is 2-storey and basement 1-window brick former chapel house; slate roof and central rendered chimney stack. Small pane sash windows with lintels, also to boarded basement door and panelled double doors to right reached up parallel steps. Modern basement window to left and alterations to left.
Interior
The interior of the chapel is said to have had fittings removed following disuse in 1970's.
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