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
148
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/11/1964
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Old Telegraph House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llysfaen
Town
Locality
Llysfaen
Easting
289106
Northing
377307
Street Side
W
Location
Located in a commanding position on the highest point of the Mynydd Marian, with spectacular views of the bay to the N and the uplands to the rear accessed via a long unmetalled track running W from Bronyllan Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Former semaphore station, subsequently converted to use as a telegraph house; one of a series built in 1841 by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, and, like that surviving at Prestatyn, ascribable to Jesse Hartley, Chief Engineer to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. Originally a 2-bay rectangular structure with central stack, it was extended to the S and N later in the C19; further, modern alterations and additions.
Exterior
Single-storey building, consisting of a primary rectangular block with later extension to S and with modern, flat-roofed, bow-windowed addition to north. Of whitened brick construction, the (early) additions of whitened rubble. The original section retains its contemporary slate roof with graduated courses, and has sandstone copings up to half hips (the S. extension, also slated, repeats this treatment). Central rendered chimney with clustered octagonal flues; small, plain chimney to extension. 2 recessed windows to W side (and formerly also to E), with cambered heads and modern small-pane glazing. Modern windows and openings elsewhere, including a canted bay to E. A large C19 stone tablet in the N gable bears the inscription: " Llysfaen Telegraph, built in 1841 by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks". Below, a single-storey later C19 lean-to addition of slated rubble extends the full length of the gable. To the R a modern porch has been incorporated with, projecting northwards immediately beyond, a bowed modern addition. A small, single-storey rubble addition adjoins the gable lean-to to the E; pitched, slated roof and late C19/early C20 4-pane casement to front. Beyond, a modern glazed extension.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey (3/97).
Reason for designation
Included, notwithstanding alterations, for its special historic interest as a scarce surviving example of a mid C19 semaphore/telegraph station.
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