St. Asaph Diocesan Office, St. Asaph (Llanelwy), Denbighshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2573 / 53°15'26"N

Longitude: -3.4428 / 3°26'34"W

OS Eastings: 303847

OS Northings: 374337

OS Grid: SJ038743

Mapcode National: GBR 4ZDS.F2

Mapcode Global: WH76N.2DV7

Plus Code: 9C5R7H44+WV

Entry Name: St. Asaph Diocesan Office

Listing Date: 24 November 1987

Last Amended: 24 November 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 1462

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300001462

Location: Near the top of the High Street at the NW corner of the Cathedral churchyard.

County: Denbighshire

Community: St. Asaph (Llanelwy)

Community: St. Asaph

Built-Up Area: St Asaph

Traditional County: Flintshire

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History

Built 1810 (although not shown on 1810 map); earlier origins to right.

Exterior

Tudor 2-storey structure with crenellated gable end to the front, coursed rubble with freestone dressings. Tudor hood moulds to 2-light 1st floor window with pointed heads and 4-centred entrance below with pointed door; plain stone tablet (?) originally with inscription. Slate roof with undulating ridge, brick and stone chimney stacks and stone bracketed eaves. Random coursed rubble left side with similar 1st floor window; ground floor entrance to Cathedral museum is below churchyard level and reached through a cutting with depressed arched roof. Similar crenellated parapet and hoodmoulds to rear gable end with Gothick small pane sash windows; metal barred Tudor windows below partly beneath ground level.
Brick gable-ended shorter parallel chapter room set back to right, mostly flemish bond. Timber frame sash windows, paired light to front, tripartite to rear. Brick chimney breast to right rear with very tall stack. Slate roof lean-to forward to the street with brick screen wall to front, ashlar dressings and Tudor doorway. Gothic railings adjoining the chapter room border the edge of the churchyard with yard to rear of the former Barber's shop below.

Interior

Rectangular chapter room retains cornice and panelled doors; groin vaulted Diocesan Board of Finance Office with central pier. some Gothick fittings retained including panelled bookcases; Victorian staircase.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with the Cathedral and other listed items in the High Street.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Former Barber Shop
Set into the slope near the top of the High Street, to the right of the Diocesan Office; shown on 1854/5 map as a Savings Bank.
II The Old Rectory
Detached and set into the slope at the top of the street, small forecourt with Georgian railings and gates. Formerly called Bodlondeb and later a Post Office
II Translator's Memorial
Above the street in the churchyard to the north of the Cathedral.
II Barrow Crafts (including Antiques Shop)
L-plan range set back near the top of the High Street adjoining the National Westminster Bank; part formerly called "Temperance House."
II H.M. Cleaver & Co. (Solicitors)
L-plan range set back near the top of the High Street adjoining the National Westminster Bank; part formerly called "Temperance House."
I Cathedral Church of St. Asaph
At the top of the hill, dominating the views of the city from the W.
II Sundial at Kentigern Hall
Set in front garden (S side) of former Canonry.
II Glasgow House including County Cleaners, Halifax Building Society & Shoe Repairs
Set into the slope near the bottom of the street, detached to left.

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St. Asaph Diocesan Office

A Grade II Listed Building in St. Asaph (Llanelwy), Denbighshire