Former Stable Block at Bryn-y-Neuadd Hospital (includes Yard Cottage & Bryn-y-Neuadd Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 April 1992. Stable block.
Former Stable Block at Bryn-y-Neuadd Hospital (includes Yard Cottage & Bryn-y-Neuadd Cottage)
- WRENN ID
- cold-keep-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1992
- Type
- Stable block
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former stable block, along with Yard Cottage and Bryn-y-Neuadd Cottage, is arranged around a courtyard. Dating to the mid-19th century, it forms part of the former Bryn-y-Neuadd Hospital site, originally the location of the main house. The construction utilizes snecked local stone with pale freestone dressings, covered by a slate roof. The building features stone chimneys, one octagonal and one rectangular, rising from the ridge.
The entrance range, facing southwest, incorporates a gabled archway with a 4-centred entrance arch flanked by low buttresses; a blank escutcheon sits in the gable. To the right of the archway, a wall runs upwards into two dormers, the left dormer corbelled outwards. The ground floor of this section includes square-headed windows flanking the archway. The left return is gabled, featuring a single first-floor window with pale limestone dressings dating from the 1850s, and two square-headed ground floor windows with golden limestone dressings from the 1890s. The rear, or courtyard, elevation showcases a pointed arched window above the entrance arch, flanked by lower 4-centred arches; one is blocked, and the other contains wooden doors.
A south corner block is distinguished by its pyramidal roof. A doorway to the left of this block features an elliptical arch with a hoodmould. The fenestration is asymmetrical over two floors. The return to the southeast displays groups of round-headed windows and a stair tower with a pinnacled pyramidal roof at the west corner.
The southeast range is two-storey and crenellated, constructed with random rubble laid in courses and featuring golden limestone dressings. It displays a striking array of eight rectangular stone chimneys. The range has six bays, with the second and fifth bays having a semi-hexagonal plan, stepped gables, and arrow loops. The remaining bays incorporate paired sash windows, with an entrance door situated in the fourth bay. A parallel range is attached to the rear, slightly lower, and boasts paired square-headed windows facing the courtyard.
The northwest range consists of two linked blocks with entrances facing the courtyard. The left block has a central dormer with a window and a Gothic-arched door below, flanked by square-headed windows; another door is located to the left. It links to a similar but asymmetrical block, which presents a dormer and a square first-floor opening with a label. A door features a 4-centred arch with a hoodmould, alongside a square-headed window. The gable end displays a datestone inscribed '1858' and the initial 'P', commemorating John Platt, below a semi-hexagonal bay window. A single-storey gabled former power-house is situated to the right. A wall with gatepiers (having stepped pyramidal caps with ball finials) connects the southeast and northwest ranges.
Rear elevations display smaller windows dating from the 1850s (with pale limestone dressings) and larger openings from the 1890s (with golden limestone dressings).
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