17011

 

II  

Designated  

21/02/1996  

21/02/1996  

The Hall (with connecting wall to triangular store)  

 

Conwy  

Caerhun  

 

Caerhun  

277358  

371186  

 

Prominently sited on the corner of the B5106 (Bettws-y-Coed - Conwy road) at its junction with a lane running SW to Pontwgan; set back slightly behind plain rubble walls.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

 

Roughly square, one-and-a-half storey building of rubble, roughcast from dado level upwards, with long sweeping slate roofs; decorative chevron patterning in lighter slates. The building is essentially of double-pile design with central unifying pyramidal roof and surmounting gabled and slatted louvre. Single-storey gabled porch to E (road-facing) side with octagonal recessed window to its gable; diagonal glazing bars. Pointed-arched, chamfered entrance to N side, with small gable over; boarded double doors. The E and W sides of the main block are M-shaped, the gables of the 2 piles meeting to form a valley in the centre; the outer roof pitches are longer. Each of the gables has a tall central recess with canted head, those to the N containing 9-pane fixed windows above later ground-floor windows; vertically-boarded divisions to centre. Those to the S (garden-facing) side have modern upper sections and, to the ground floor, a 9-pane full-length window to the L, with a glazed door to the R; octagonal window as before to far R, with plain chimney at corner beyond; 2-part construction with brick upper section. Further, projecting stack to centre, between the paired gables. A further octagonal window appears to the R of the northern twin-gabled side, consciously interrupting its symmetry. Narrower advanced bay to the W side with long, shallow catslide roof; part-glazed central door with plain, narrow flanking lights. To the W of the building, a triangular rubble-walled yard/garden with, in the W corner, and bordering the lane to the N, a triangular pavilion or store. Of rubble with pyramidal slate roof with chevron decoration as before and lead ball finial. Boarded door to E side and boarded window to N (lane-facing) side.  

 

Included for its special interest as a high-quality church hall of ingenious and vibrant design by an important early C20 regional architect.  

The Hall and triangular store Built as a church hall c1904 by Herbert Luck North, architect of Llanfairfechan, as part of a proposed but not executed scheme for a new church at Caerhun; presently a private house. The design betrays strong Arts and Crafts influences and is of bold geometric conception with playful yet powerful Gothic and Burgundian decorative quotes, particularly apparent in the chevron roof patterning.