St John's Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 September 1994. Church.

St John's Church House

WRENN ID
salt-jamb-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 September 1994
Type
Church
Address
St John's Church House, Old Colwyn
OS grid reference
SH 869 784
Coordinates
53.29086, -3.69756
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

St John's Church House is a building constructed from buff brick, featuring cable moulded string courses and concrete tiled and flat roofs behind parapets. The main hall has a flat roof and a splayed plan, with a stepped fly tower at its narrowest end, blindwalled aisles, and clerestory windows. The fly tower is capped with a deep band of rusticated brickwork that forms a frieze. The curved inner wall at the wider end of the hall mirrors the curve of the gabled frontage, which contains meeting and service rooms, as well as the main entrance accessed through a recessed carved splayed porch. The doorway features hollow chamfered brick moulding to the arch, with a cable moulded cornice and parapet above. The flanking windows, all metal casements with leaded lights and splayed brick heads, are grouped in pairs and quartets. The gabled range ends with flat-roofed blocks, which have narrow windows set in slightly sunk openings.

Inside, the building is characterized by exposed, slightly glazed brick used for dressings. The main hall's splayed plan includes a curved end wall, with an outer corridor running between the hall and smaller meeting and service rooms. The aisles on either side of the hall are raised above the floor level, and the arcade features flat arches supported by plain piers with unmoulded chamfered brackets at the corners. A stage is located at the narrower end of the hall, and the curved rear wall has a series of 'porthole' windows that open from the flanking corridor. The meeting rooms on the opposite side of this corridor have simple exposed brick fireplaces, one of which includes inset blue and white tiles.

Local climate

St John's Church House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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