Attached former Minister's House is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 November 1995. Church, former minister's house.
Attached former Minister's House
- WRENN ID
- gilded-foundation-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 November 1995
- Type
- Church, former minister's house
- Address
- Attached former Minister's House, Penmaenmawr
- OS grid reference
- SH 723 765
- Coordinates
- 53.27019, -3.91543
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Roman Catholic Church of the Lady of the Rosary and attached former Minister's House, Penmaenmawr
This group comprises a chapel and adjoining minister's residence, both constructed in snecked rubble with Penmaenmawr granite dressings and shallow hipped slate roofs with wooden bracketing to oversailing eaves.
The chapel is a five-bay rectangular building dated 1867. Its three-bay symmetrical façade displays Tuscan giant order columns supporting a Classical entablature with modillion treatment. A coped parapet rises above, with four spaced ball finials relating to the orders below. A central raised cartouche set into the parapet bears the date 1867, with a plain iron cross above. The frieze is inscribed 'Domus Dei et Porta Coeli' (Genesis xxviii.17).
The central entrance occupies a plain, full-height arched recess and features a moulded architrave and plain bracketed entablature, with recessed eight-panelled double doors. Flanking windows are set above a moulded cill-course, with moulded and pedimented architraves; these are multi-pane sash windows with marginal glazing. Five similar windows, though without pediments, line the long sides of the chapel, each with projecting stone cills.
The former minister's house adjoins to the rear, set back slightly behind a dwarf walled forecourt. It shares the same construction materials and finish. Its near-symmetrical three-bay front has a central recessed entrance with a part-glazed boarded door. To the left stands a large contemporary recessed sash window of four panes with marginal glazing and projecting slate cill. To the right of the entrance are part-glazed modern double doors (now boarded up), which replaced an original window of the same type. Three further similar sashes occupy the first floor. A contemporary service lean-to extension projects from the rear, with a modern flat-roofed extension beyond. A squat stock brick chimney with one contemporary ceramic pot is present.
The interior was not accessible at the time of inspection in July 1995.
Local climate
Attached former Minister's House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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