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
1444
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/11/1987
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987
Name of Property
Former Coach House,Stables & Outbuildings to Staverton & Southcroft
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
St. Asaph
Town
Locality
Easting
302314
Northing
373914
Street Side
Location
Approximately 1 mile W of the city, at right angles to the road with drive to E. Formerly part of The Cottage and said to have been a coaching inn on the Holyhead to Chester Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Large U-plan group of farm buildings of various periods; largely Victorian but with fine C18 stables and coach house to S.
Exterior
The earliest range is a small gable-ended rubble barn at the roadside with slate roof; ventilation slits one with reused garden wall balusters to jambs. Said to have been used as a chapel at one time. The N courtyard side has 4-centred dressed stone doorway inscribed lh 1779; 3-light timber frame window above to left. Rubble left end with brick-lined semicircular opening (bee bole?). 2-storey, 2 + 3 bay brick coach house and stables runs N from the road, brace plates to gable end, whitewashed E side; undulating slate roof. Tall arched coach entrance to left with voussoirs and keystone, dated TMH 1786, below boarded loft doors, camber headed voussoirs to lower stable doors with patterned ventilators. To right (contemporary with cross range to staverton opposite) is a Victorian asymmetrical 2-bay brick range with stepped cornice, left-hand bay is set back with keystone to coach entrance and right-hand bay open-pediment treatment to gable. The latter retains winch over tall arched loft opening with double doors and freestone quarter round hinge sockets; tripartite cross-frame window below. The inner sides of the courtyard have similar brick detail including open pediments and brick chimney to angle.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Staverton and Southcroft.
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