Church House

Large church hall complex of roughcast brick construction on a rubble plinth; slate roofs with tiled ridges and feathered eaves. The plan essentially consists of a main twin-gabled, double-pile section with irregular L-shaped flanking pavilions. The facade is near-symmetrical with a reflected pair of central gables, their outer pitches shallower and longer than their inner. These each have a pair of tall, recessed 12-pane windows, with shallow triangular heads and splayed slate cills. Dividing the gables centrally is a downpipe with cast iron hopper; this bears the raised lettering 'St. C' (for St. Cynfran's) and the date 1930. The L gable has a further, square-headed 8-pane window to L. Adjoining to the L of the left-hand gable, and stepped down from it, is a hipped-roofed extension, returned at a lower level to the front where it terminates in an apsidal projection. This has a hipped apsidal roof and four vertical, rectangular windows to the front, each an 8-pane casement. At the angle, a staged brick chimney with tripartite stacks (that to centre raised) and contemporary ceramic pots. Extruded in the angle between the main block and this projecting one, a gabled entrance porch; wide chamfered and stopped entrance arch with segmental head and 'in-and-out' type boarded double doors. A flanking buttress, flush with the front slopes to the R. Above the entrance, an inset mosaic cross. To the R of the main block, a similar low L-shaped arm, terminating in an advanced gable to the front, with long, feathered inner roof pitch. This forms a catslide roof over a porch in the inner return. Shallow triangular-headed opening and a similar unglazed light to the front; its face is battered. Three 8-pane windows as before to front gable. Similar window arrangement to main block at rear and further entrance to advanced catslide porch at L. Triple window group to N side of apsidal wing, with flanking paired windows, all 8-pane casements.

Plain, though unaltered interiors. Small-pane glazed double doors to vestibule and main hall, otherwise 5-panel (horizontal) doors. Usual Colwyn Ffoulkes spacial arrangement for such buildings, with a main hall (containing stage at one end) and a parish room on either side of a corridor opposite the entrance. The hall has a pine boarded dado and canted ends to an otherwise plain ceiling. Simple architrave to raised stage at S end. Stage access to both sides via short balustraded flights of steps leading off from small dressing rooms. Toilets and kitchen off corridor, beyond the apsidal parish room.