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
25/07/1994
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
St Paul's Vicarage
Location
Set back from the road beside the Church of St Paul.
History
Dated 1895, and built to designs of Douglas and Fordham, architects, of Chester.
Exterior
Polygonal limestone, randomly coursed, with freestone dressings; green slate roof. 2 storeys, 3-gabled front elevation facing Abergele Road, with advanced central gabled storeyed porch. 4-centred archway to doorway, and 3-light window above it. Wide outer gables, with 5-light windows on each floor to the E, and 5-lights to ground floor in W gable, with paired 2-light windows above. Lower windows are mullioned and transomed, with mullioned windows above, all in slightly projecting painted wood cased and with decorative leaded panes. Set back to the W, a further bay represents part of the rear service wind, with windows in its gable facing W, and a single 2-light mullioned window above it. Broad bargeboards with pendant finials to gables, and brick axial stacks.
Reason for designation
The building uses vernacular vocabulary to create a building with considerable architectural character. Forms a group with the Church of Saint Paul.
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