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
14705
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/07/1994
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
Heathfield
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Colwyn Bay
Town
Locality
Colwyn Bay
Easting
284598
Northing
378827
Street Side
E
Location
At right angles to the road, almost opposite the junction with Combermere Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built as a private house in 1893 and designed by Douglas and Fordham, architects, of Chester. Now used as a boarding house by Rydal School.
Exterior
Brick with stone dressings, and half-timbering in the upper storey, plain tiled roof with end wall and axial stacks. Entrance front is dominated by 3 timber-framed jetted gabled advanced from the main roof-line. Entrance in left-hand gable, in 4-centred arched door with side lights. 5-light mullioned and transomed window alongside the doorway. Ground floor of right-hand bay is recessed, with 4-light mullioned window, the gabled upper storey carried forward on heavy brackets. Mullioned windows of 4 and 5 leaded lights in the upper storey. Jetted gable apexes, with date on bressumer of central gable. Prominent chimney stack in angle of left hand gable, against the return of the W-facing gable. This is brick with stepped plat band; timbering in apex of gable only. 4 light mullioned window on each floor (with transoms to ground floor), and lean-to bay with 3-light mullioned and transomed window to the right. Brick stack cuts across the gable to the right. Garden front faces N: advanced central gable with doorway (inserted or renewed) and 4-light window above it. Asymmetrical windows in timber-framed apex of gable above. Smaller mullioned windows of 1 and 2 lights in left hand bay (the service end), and 4-light mullioned and transomed stair window in right hand bay. Canted bay window to right with brick to lower storey, timber framing above, and hipped tiled roof.
Interior
Reason for designation
A distinctive freely-interpreted Neo-Vernacular building, one of the best examples of its kind in Colwyn Bay.
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