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
1431
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
24/11/1987  
Date of Amendment
24/11/1987  
Name of Property
The Court House  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Denbighshire  
Community
St. Asaph  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
304005  
Northing
374436  
Street Side
 
Location
Detached on the edge of the city before the road descends to the E.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
Built 1853 as the County Court.  

Exterior
Classical 1 storey 5-bay ashlar front with plinth and buff stone dressings including cornice and rusticated end pilasters with vermiculated ornament. Advanced central bay with cross gable given open pediment treatment to front carried on similar pilasters. This feature is repeated on end walls. Slate roof and stone chimney stacks; similar broad cross gable, with bull''s eye feature, of court room range rises behind over front roof; truncated stack to ridge. Royal coat of arms to centre, flanked by sedant lion and horse carried on bracketed ledge. Tripartite window below with arched headed lights with keystones, pilasters and bracketed cill; sash glazing without glazing bars. Similar to bipartite windows to either side and similarly detailed arched entrances to either ends, stable-type door inserted to left, ornately panelled door to right. Ashlar end walls, to left facing drive to hilltop, to right with adjoining modern extension to annedd. Bipartite sash to left hand rear gable. Higher 2-storey court room range extends to centre rear with end pilasters and bipartite arched headed sash windows with bracket cills to upper floor, no windows below.  

Interior
Interior retains bracket cornice to double doors in Court Room.  

Reason for designation
 

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